elixate, v.
(ɪˈlɪk-, ˈɛlɪkseɪt)
[f. L. ēlixāt- ppl. stem of ēlixāre to boil, stew.]
1. trans. To boil, seethe; to extract by boiling.
| 1623 in Cockeram. 1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies 62 Elixate your antimonie. 1657 Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 162 Its enough to elixate a few simples in water on a slow fire. 1884 in Syd. Soc. Lex. |
2. To steep (in water); to macerate.
| 1657 G. Starkey Helmont's Vind. 310 The Caput mortuum being elixated by warm water will give an Alcali. 1805 Gregor in Phil. Trans. XCV. 345 The brownish-gray mass was elixated with distilled water, which dissolved nearly the whole of it. |
Hence elixated ppl. a.
| 1823 P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 334 The elixated ashes of divers vegetables. |