liquate

Verb

liquate (third-person singular simple present liquates, present participle liquating, simple past and past participle liquated)

1. (transitive) To separate by fusion, as a more fusible from a less fusible material.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To cause (something) to become liquid; to liquefy, to melt.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To become liquid; to liquefy, to melt.
   • '[T]is known how eaſily the Bodies, and even the very Bones of ſome Fishes, liquate and diſſolve.1728, J[ohn] Woodward, “[A Catalogue of the Foreign Fossils in the Collection of J. Woodward M.D. […] Part II […].] Pisces eorumque Partes. Fishes in Stone.”, in A Catalogue of the Additional English...