单词 | eliquate |
释义 | † eliquateadj. Obsolete. rare. As past participle: liquefied, dissolved. In quot.: spec. severed by disintegration. Cf. eliquate v. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > [adjective] moltena1400 eliquate?a1425 remiss?1440 resolveda1500 liquefacted1598 liquefied1599 fluidified1842 liquated1874 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 119v (MED) So I withholde it [sc. the mortified limb] vnto þe iuncture be eliquate .i. melted, an þe membre falle bi it selfe, for it is more honest to a leche þat it fal bi it selfe þan if it were kutted. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018). † eliquatev. Obsolete. 1. a. transitive. To liquefy (a substance). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > make liquid [verb (transitive)] resolvea1398 flow1413 distilc1470 flux1477 liquefy1547 cut1578 uncrud1598 illiquefact1599 resolve1604 infuse1607 egelidate1609 eliquate1621 liquidate1656 diffude1657 liquate1669 colliquate1680 solve1794 liquidize1837 fluidify1849 1621 T. Venner Briefe Treat. Tobacco sig. D3 It eliquateth the pingui-substance of the kidnies. 1680 W. Charleton Enq. Human Nature 116 After the substance of the meat hath been eliquated into a gelly, a larger proportion of drink is requisite to give it a thinner consistence. b. transitive. To melt by heat, to fuse. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > action or process of melting > melt [verb (transitive)] formeltc893 meltOE dissolve1382 rend1558 eliquate1638 discoagulatea1658 fuse1681 1638 A. Read Treat. 1st Pt. Chirurg. iv. 28 Immoderat heat doth eliquat or melt the humours. c. transitive. To cause to flow freely. ΚΠ 1671 G. Thomson Μισοχυμὶας Ἔλεγχου 34 They do but palliate..a Disease, Eliquating or draining the Rivulets or Products, not touching the Fountain of a Disease. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xix. 742 Such [Diureticks] as..only plentifully eliquate [L. eliquant] the Urine. 1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 244 It eliquates the Blood, dilutes the Juices. 2. transitive. Chemistry. To separate (a metal or other substance) from a mixture, ore, etc., by melting; to smelt (an ore). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > extract from ore > smelt try13.. smelt1543 run1650 reduce1666 eliquate1759 resmelt1804 beneficiate1873 1759 W. Lewis in tr. C. Neumann Chem. Wks. Index Lead,..eliquated from copper. 1851 J. C. Booth & C. Morfit On Recent Improvem. Chem. Arts iii. 53 Antimony, being generally found as sulphuret, is eliquated as such, the sulphuret being very fusible. 1925 U.S. Patent 1,548,972 (title) Method of eliquating zinc. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.?a1425v.1621 |
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