deliquate

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/ˈdɛlɪkweɪt/

verb

To cause (something) to melt away; to consume, to dissolve.

OriginLatin dēliquātus →
Scrabble 19
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Meanings

verbdeliquate (third-person singular simple present deliquates, present participle deliquating, simple past and past participle deliquated)

present singular third person deliquates · participle present deliquating · participle past deliquated · past deliquated

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo cause (something) to melt away; to consume, to dissolve.
  2. intransitiveobsoleteTo melt or be dissolved; to deliquesce.

    I caus'd an unuſual Brine to be made, by ſuffering Sea-ſalt to deliquate in the moiſt Air.

    1669, Robert Boyle, “Experiment XII. About the Differing Heights whereto Liquors will be Elevated by Suction, according to Their Several Specifick Gravities.”, in A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, and Their Effects. The I. Part. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Henry Hall, printer to the University, for Richard Davis, →OCLC, page 37

Origin

  1. Latindēliquātus
  2. Englishdeliquate

First attested in 1617; borrowed from Latin dēliquātus, perfect passive participle of dēliquō (“to clarify, skim a liquid”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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APA

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Chicago

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