impostumate

verb

variants or imposthumate

-ed/-ing/-s

transitive verb

obsolete : to affect with an impostume : to cause to have an impostume

intransitive verb

obsolete : to form an impostume

Word History

Etymology

impostume, imposthume + -ate

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