单词 | suffite |
释义 | † suffite, n. Obs. rare. [ad. L. suffītus, f. suffīt-, suffīre to fumigate, f. suf- = sub- + *fīre (prob. related to fūmus smoke).] = suffiment.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. iii. iii. 267 Suffites, perfumes, and suffumigations. So † suffite v., to fumigate; † suˈffition [L. suffītio], fumigation, perfume.
1656Blount Glossogr., Suffition, a purfume, a fumigation. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 215, I saw a waiting man..so suffited by a woman. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl., Suffition, among the Romans, a kind of lustration, practised by persons who had attended a funeral; it was performed by walking over fire, and being sprinkled with water. |

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