elixate

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verb

To boil; to seethe.

OriginLatin ēlixātus ← Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- →
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Meanings

verbelixate (third-person singular simple present elixates, present participle elixating, simple past and past participle elixated)

present singular third person elixates · participle present elixating · participle past elixated · past elixated

  1. obsoleteTo boil; to seethe.
  2. broadlyobsoleteTo extract by boiling or seething.

    Polypody must be contunded and elixated; whereunto , when moderately cocted , Prunes , Raisins , Wormwood , Epithymum , Binde - weed , Roses , and Liquorice must be added

    1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*wleykʷ-“moist, to wet”
  2. Latinēlixātus
  3. Englishelixate

From Latin ēlixātus, past participle of ēlixāre (“to seethe”), from ēlixus (“thoroughly boiled”), from ex + *lixus (“fluid, flowing”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- (“moist, to wet”) and thus cognate with Latin lixa (“water; lye”) and liqueō (“to be liquid, fluid”).

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APA

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Chicago

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