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cohobate, v. Old Chem.|ˈkəʊhəʊbeɪt| [In mod.L. cohobāre, F. cohober: see prec.] trans. To subject to repeated distillation, by pouring a liquid back again and again upon the matter from which it has been distilled (or other matter of the same kind).
1641French Distill. ii. (1651) 50 Cohobate this water three times. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 248 That salt being cohobated sometimes with Paracelsus his sal circulatum. 1731Arbuthnot Aliments (J.), The juices of an animal body are as it were cohobated, being excreted and admitted again into the blood with the fresh aliment. 1767Woulfe Distill. in Phil. Trans. LVII. 53 The spirit of wine, charged with the acid vapours, must be distilled and cohabated. 1879A. Swanwick tr. Goethe's Faust ii. ii. 288 The human system duly we compose, And then in a retort enclose, And cohobate. Hence ˈcohobating vbl. n. and ppl. a.; ˈcohoˌbator, an apparatus or agent that effects cohobation.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. vii. 110 An eye for an Alchimist, a sublimating..and Cohobating eye. 1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 339 By a repeated Cohobating or injection of its own extracted liquor in distillation. |