v. Sc. Obs. Also -coat(e. [UNDER-1 5 a, with obscure second element: cf. QUAT sb.1] intr. To suppurate or fester inwardly.

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1584.  Hudson, Du Bartas’ Judith, II. 182. To Medciners, the medcine vailed not; So sore the poisond plague did vndercot.

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1591.  R. Bruce, Serm., T ij b. The outwarde scroofe, suppose it appeareth to be whole when the inward is festered auaileth nothing, bot maketh it to vndercoate again.

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1637.  Rutherford, Lett., I. cxl. (1664), 275. These … cannot have but such a peace with God, as will undercot and break the flesh again.

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1669.  R. Fleming, Fulfilling Script., I. (1726), 77. Too soon letting out of a sore may cause it undercot and gather new matter.

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1727.  P. Walker, Biog. Presbyt. (1827), I. 226. A slight Way of Healing indeed, which now is undercotted, and seems to be incurable.

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  Hence † Undercotted, Undercotting ppl. adjs.

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1636.  Rutherford, Lett. (1664), 315. I finde old sores bleeding of new; so dangerous … is an undercotted conscience. Ibid. (1637), 222. My dumb sabbaths are undercotting wounds.

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