▪ I. † ˈcalcinate, a. and n. Obs.
[ad. med.L. calcinātum (that which is) calcined.]
A. adj. Calcined. B. n. A calcined form or product, as calcinate of magnesia.
| 1610 Markham Masterp. ii. xli. 284 Eate it out either with verdigrease..or else with Mercury calcinate. [1685 Boyle Effects of Motion iv. 37 Nitre itself may without Tartar be speedily reduced to a Calcinatum.] |
▪ II. † ˈcalcinate, v. Obs.
[f. med.L. calcinat- ppl. stem of calcināre.]
= calcine.
| 1559 Morwyng Evonym. 319 Sum put Tartarum to be calcinated in a newe pot in a potters oven. 1598 Florio, Calcinare, to calcinate. 1610 Markham Masterp. ii. lxxix. 355 Other Farriers vse to calcinate Tartar, and dissolue it in water. 1626 Bacon Sylva §87 The Heat that these degrees; First, it indurateth and then maketh Fragile; And lastly it doth Incinerate, and Calcinate. |
Hence ˈcalcinated, ˈcalcinating ppl. adjs.
| 1611 Cotgr., Calcinatoire, calcinatorie, calcinating. 1615 Daniel Queen's Arcad. (1717) 185 He sucks Out of a little hollow instrument Of calcinated Clay, the Smoak thereof. 1656 Blount Glossogr., Cinnaber, made of calcinated Sulphur and Quick-silver. |