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1659 G. Everard Panacea 43 The third sort of Tobacco, which some call black, others yellow Henbane, is contrary to Tobacco in nature and qualities, and therefore they do ill, that foolishly use it for the true Tobacco. Yet it may serve to revulse hot humours, and in part to resolve hot Impostumes.

1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 78 This virulent acrimony..becomes by a retrograde motion revulsed into the veins.

1673 W. Harvey Anat. Exercitations (new ed.) ii. 123 To take away the blood..that it might be revulsed from the lungs.

1754 R. Brookes Gen. Pract. Physic (ed. 2) II. 204 Internally, the abounding Serum must be evacuated or revulsed.

1790 S. Deane New-Eng. Farmer 111/2 The humour, in about twenty four hours, will be revulsed from the udder to the dewlap.

1827 N. Amer. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 3 301 We believe, that they do this, by revulsing irritation from the uterus, and not, as believed by him, by preventing plethora.

1848 Jrnl. Health & Dis. 3 5 The original disease is supposed to be derived, or revulsed, from the part, in which it was originally seated.

2003 S. Kusukawa in P. Elmer Healing Arts iii. 67 If an inflammation occurred on the left-hand side of the body, blood was revulsed from the right-hand side of the body.

c1694 T. Beverley Memorial Kingdom of Christ near Approaching 9 Any of the Ten, though if not Revuls'd from the Beast, they are in Prophetic Language, Horns of the Papacy.

1793 C. Dibdin Younger Brother I. ii. i. 124 Howsomdever, I ben't one of them that's easily revulsed; if he won't go by an exercise, I must beat up a charge.

1794 I. Kelly Madeline III. xxxviii. 96 Her fever had reached its height—and when they believed she had expired, nature revulsed, and Heaven, in mercy to her friends, lent her a little longer.

1852 Amer. Whig Rev. Sept. 265/2 My brain is suddenly revulsed with returning consciousness of locality.

1902 Maryland Med. Jrnl. May 212 Electrical current was applied, the nerve pinched with forceps, and then either revulsed or resected.

1887 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 16 Oct. 23/4 The thought of idle pleasures revulsed him.

1899 E. Seton-Thompson Trail of Sandhill Stag iv. 45 He laid the rifle down, revulsed—and trembled in the snow.

1914 R. Dunn Youngest World ii. 23 A loathing for her flooded Gail; less her brutal frankness than her monstrous philosophy revulsed him.

1958 Times 23 May 14/3 His wife was naturally revulsed by this.

1985 N.Y. Times 29 Sept. h 30/2 Some [images] mean to make us feel proud and patriotic, some to inspire us to bravery, some to revulse us and spur us to protest.

2007 J. Clark Heart like Water xxxiii. 210 I kept flipping back and forth through the pages, scanning the photographs over and over to make sure they revulsed me no matter how long I looked at them.