[ad. L. sūgillātio, -ōnem, sugg-, n. of action f. sūgillāre (see SUGILL). So F.]
1. † Beating black and blue (obs.); Med. a livid or black-and-blue mark; a bruise; ecchymosis.
1623. Cockeram, Sugillation, a beating blacke and blew.
1634. T. Johnson, Parey’s Chirurg., XII. i. (1678), 293. There are divers sorts of these Sugillations or blacknesses.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Sugillation,… the blood-shot of an eye.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., V. 139. A Cataplasm, often in one night, takes away the Sugillation.
1743. trans. Heister’s Surg. (1768), 105. Red, black, and livid Spots, which we call a Sugillation.
1836–1. Lancet, II. 181/2. Sugillation coming on after death is always confined to a dependent part.
1859. Mayne, Expos. Lex., Sugillation, term for the mark left by a leech, or cupping-glass; also, for those livid spots of various size noticed on dead bodies.
† 2. Defamation. Obs. rare–1.
1654. Warren, Unbelievers, c ij b. In this suggillation of his, to make his brethren odious.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Sugillation,… reproach, slander.
