vitrificate

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verb

To convert into glass; to vitrify.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

verbvitrificate (third-person singular simple present vitrificates, present participle vitrificating, simple past and past participle vitrificated)

present singular third person vitrificates · participle present vitrificating · participle past vitrificated · past vitrificated

  1. obsoleteTo convert into glass; to vitrify.

    glasses of divers kinds ; and amongst them 'some of metals vitrificated

    1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “New Atlantis. A Worke Vnfinished.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC
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