verb. Same as imposthumate.

noun. A collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess.

noun. an abscess

verb. to form an abscess

"When I first took this task in hand, et quod ait [60] ille, impellents genio negotium suscepi, this I aimed at; [61] vel ut lenirem animum scribendo, to ease my mind by writing; for I had gravidum cor, foetum caput, a kind of imposthume in my head, which I was very desirous to be unladen of, and could imagine no fitter evacuation than this."

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