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elix

elix verb: to draw out or extract.

Verb

elix (third-person singular simple present elixes, present participle elixing, simple past and past participle elixed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To draw out or extract.
    • O that our muse / Had those abstruse and sinewy faculties / That with a strain of fresh invention / She might press out the rarity of art, / The pur'st elixed juice of rich conceit, / In your attentive ears, that with the lip / Of gracious elocution we might drink / A sound carouse unto your health...c. 1599 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], The History of Antonio and Mellida. The First Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Mathewe Lownes, and Thomas Fisher, […], published 1602...

Forms of elix

third-person singular presentelixes
present participleelixing
past participleelixed
pastelixed

Questions about elix

What does elix mean?
Elix means to draw out or extract.
What part of speech is elix?
Elix is a verb.
What is the past tense of elix?
The past tense of elix is elixed.

Words near elix in the dictionary

  1. elitistly
  2. elitists
  3. elitocide
  4. elitocracies
  5. elitocracy
  6. elix
  7. elixate
  8. elixated
  9. elixates
  10. elixating
  11. elixation

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