cohobate

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verb

To treat a material with a boiling liquid and repeatedly return the distillate.

OriginNew Latin cohobātus ← Arabic كَعَّبَ →
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Meanings

verbcohobate (third-person singular simple present cohobates, present participle cohobating, simple past and past participle cohobated)

present singular third person cohobates · participle present cohobating · participle past cohobated · past cohobated

  1. physicalalchemyTo treat a material with a boiling liquid and repeatedly return the distillate.
nouncohobate (plural cohobates)

plural cohobates

  1. The concentrated distillate so formed

Origin

  1. Arabicكَعَّبَ
  2. New Latincohobātus
  3. Englishcohobate

From New Latin cohobātus, past participle of cohobāre, perhaps from Arabic كَعَّبَ (kaʕʕaba).

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Translations

Bulgarian предестилирам
  • предестилирам (predestiliram)to treat a material with a boiling liquid and repeatedly return the distillate
Catalan cohobar
  • cohobarto treat a material with a boiling liquid and repeatedly return the distillate
French cohober
  • cohoberto treat a material with a boiling liquid and repeatedly return the distillate
Italian coobare
  • coobareto treat a material with a boiling liquid and repeatedly return the distillate
Portuguese coobar
  • coobarto treat a material with a boiling liquid and repeatedly return the distillate
Spanish cohobar
  • cohobarto treat a material with a boiling liquid and repeatedly return the distillate
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Chicago

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