lixivious, a. Now rare.
(lɪkˈsɪvɪəs)
[f. L. lixīvi-um lye + -ous.]
= lixivial a.
| 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriot. 31 The salt and lixivious liquor of the body. 1686 W. Harris Lemery's Course Chym. Introd. (ed. 3) 5 The Salt of Plants drawn after this manner, is called Lixivious Salt. 1757 A. Cooper Distiller i. xxiv. (1760) 99 Impregnated with a lixivious Taste from the alcaline Salts used in Rectification. 1761 Brit. Mag. II. 537 Those united Contraries (commixing oily with lixivious particles) compose together a new soluble, and saponaceous body. 1800 W. Saunders Min. Waters 227 [Seltzer water] has a gently saline and decidedly alkaline taste. If it be exposed to the air..it intirely loses its pungency, and the alkaline or lixivious flavour becomes proportionably stronger. |