ETYMOLOGY
irregular from Latin reficere (to rebuild, repair, restore) + -ate
EXAMPLE
“…Bay-berryes calefye much, siccate, attenuate, and discusse flatuosity: they are mixed with medicaments that reficiate the lassitude of the nerves; and with unguents, which calefye and resolve; their oyle expressed or elicited by decoction, deleats and cures scabs, blew places, wheales, and many faedityes of the skin, and discusses effused humours…”
From: A Medical Dispensatory; Containing the Whole Body of Physick
By Jean de Renou, 1657
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