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▪ I. pustulate, a.|ˈpʌstjʊlət|
[ad. late L. pustulāt-us, pa. pple. of pustulāre: see next.]
Furnished with, or having pustules; pustulous, pustular.
(In quot. 1607, perh. an error for pustulant.)
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 615 If the worme bee cut asunder in the wound, there issueth out of her such a venemous pustulate matter, that poysoneth the wound. 1846Dana Zooph. (1848) 126 The smooth exterior sometimes graduates into the pustulate. 1852― Crust. i. 90 Surface seriately pustulate, and pustules setigerous.
▪ II. pustulate, v.|ˈpʌstjʊleɪt|
[f. ppl. stem of late L. pustulāre, trans. and intr., f. pustula pustule.]
a. trans. To form into pustules.
b. intr. To break out into or form pustules.
1732Stackhouse Hist. Bible iii. iv. (1749) 364/2 Besides the blains pustulated to afflict his [Job's] body, the devil..instigated his wife to grieve his mind. 1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases xxxvii. 560 Sometimes the little vesicles [of prickly heat] may pustulate. |