percolatedadj.
/ˈpəːkəleɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˈpərkəˌleɪdᵻd/ That has percolated or has been percolated.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > percolation > [adjective] > percolated
percolated1672
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > filtering or percolating > [adjective] > filtered or percolated
filtered?1600
filtrated1663
percolated1672
leached1837
1672 J. Wallis Let. 26 Sept. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1973) IX. 261 If the want of room to recollect, be ye reason why the percolated particles do not act on ye purged Quick-silver, while ye Tube is full; the same reason would hold in this case following.
1694 T. Rogers Loyal & Impartial Satyrist 22 In you Socratick Wisdom do's survive, And flow with purer percolated streams.
1842 in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1846) 136 145 In the glacier the fissures thus formed are filled with percolated water, which is then frozen.
a1894 R. L. Stevenson In South Seas (1896) ii. ii. 166 The coco-palm in particular luxuriates in that stern solum, striking down his roots to the brackish, percolated water.
1960 H. Wentworth & S. B. Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 384/1 Perk, perc n., percolated coffee, as opposed to that boiled in a pan.
1990 Internat. Jrnl. Epidemiol. 19 897/2 In Austria.., it is customary to drink either percolated coffee or ‘Espresso’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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