v. rare. Also 6 pa. pple. (Sc.) suffumigat. [f. pa. pple. of L. suffūmigāre, f. suf- = SUB- 2, 25 + fūmigāre to FUMIGATE.]
1. trans. To fumigate from below.
1588. Alex. Hume, Hymns, vii. 35. Suffumigat with nard and cinnamon.
1612. Woodall, Surg. Mate, Wks. (1653), 202. The patients hinder parts well suffumigated with the same decoction.
1623. Cockeram, Suffumigate, to smoake underneath.
1910. Kipling, Rewards & Fairies, 270. When we came to burn the bodies of the rats, I sprinkled sulphur on the faggots whereby the on-lookers were as handsomely suffumigated.
† 2. intr. To rise in smoke or vapor. Obs.
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouers Bk. Physicke, 219/2. Take greene Corne or seede, lay it on coales, and it will suffumigate.