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glutinate

verb

  1. To unite with glue; to cement; to stick together.

    obsolete, transitive

    The lungs being cleansed and purged from matter, you must minister those medicines which will glutinate and heale vp the vlcer

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Latin glūtinātus, perfect passive participle of glūtinō (“to glue”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from glūten (“glue”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry glutinate (CC BY-SA 4.0).

← glungegluttonly →

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