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elixate

elixate verb: to boil; to seethe.

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To boil; to seethe.
  2. (broadly, obsolete) To 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 added1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory

Forms of elixate

third-person singular presentelixates
present participleelixating
past participleelixated
pastelixated

Origin of elixate

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”).

Questions about elixate

What does elixate mean?
Elixate means to boil; to seethe.
What part of speech is elixate?
Elixate is a verb.
What is the past tense of elixate?
The past tense of elixate is elixated.

Words near elixate in the dictionary

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

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