Emendicate

/ɪˈmɛndɪkeɪt/ verb

Definition

To cure or heal, especially from disease or injury; a rare medical or archaic term meaning to remedy a condition.

Etymology

From Latin emedicari (to heal completely), from e- (out, thoroughly) + medicari (to treat medically, from medicus). This is an extremely rare word, almost obsolete in modern English.

Kelly Says

Emendicate is so obscure that even most unabridged dictionaries barely mention it—it's a linguistic fossil from when Latin medical terminology was being adapted into English, mostly unsuccessfully.

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