† colliquatev.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To melt or fuse together. Also figurative.
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the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > action or process of melting > melt [verb (transitive)] > together
colliquate1603
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1153 Who being severed apart in body, conjoine and colliquate, as it were perforce, their soules together.
1661 R. Boyle Sceptical Chymist ii. 150 When Ashes and Sand are Colliquated into Glass.
2. To make liquid; to reduce to the consistence of a liquid; to melt down.
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the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > make liquid [verb (transitive)]
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1680 R. Boyle Exper. & Notes Prodvcibleness Chym. Princ. i. 42 Colliquating moderate quantities of it [Salt-petre].
3. spec. in Old Physiol.
a. To reduce (the solids of the body) to a liquid consistence; to cause to waste away (cf. colliquation n. 3b).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > affect with wasting disease [verb (transitive)]
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1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus 49 The humours and Fat of the Kidneys are apt to be colliquated through a great heat from within.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician iv. 124 In poison..there is a heating, colliquating, and putrefactive quality.
b. To reduce (humours) to a thinner consistence.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > cause to be ill [verb (transitive)] > disorder humours > reduce humours
colliquate1693
1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 726 Unless..the Humours [are] colliquated, or the Fever inclining to Malignancy.
1734 A. Stuart in Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 21 These Volatile Salts..break down and colliquate the Blood.
4. intransitive. To become liquid, melt.
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the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > become liquid [verb (intransitive)]
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colliquate1646
flux1669
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liquesce1831
liquidize1969
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. i. 51 Ice..will colliquate in water. View more context for this quotation
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