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elixate, v.|ɪˈlɪk-, ˈɛlɪkseɪt|
[f. L. ēlixāt- ppl. stem of ēlixāre to boil, stew.]
1. trans. To boil, seethe; to extract by boiling.
1623in Cockeram. 1631R. Brathwait Whimzies 62 Elixate your antimonie. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 162 Its enough to elixate a few simples in water on a slow fire. 1884in Syd. Soc. Lex.
2. To steep (in water); to macerate.
1657G. Starkey Helmont's Vind. 310 The Caput mortuum being elixated by warm water will give an Alcali. 1805Gregor in Phil. Trans. XCV. 345 The brownish-gray mass was elixated with distilled water, which dissolved nearly the whole of it.
Hence elixated ppl. a.
1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 334 The elixated ashes of divers vegetables. |