elixation

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See also: élixation

English

Etymology

From Latin ēlixāre.

Pronunciation

Noun

elixation (plural elixations)

  1. (now rare) Boiling, stewing.
  2. (now rare) Digestion (in the stomach).
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.156:
      Elixation is the seething of meat in the stomach, by the said natural heat, as meat s boiled in a pot; to which corruption or putrefaction is opposite.
  3. (obsolete, chemistry) Boiling in order to produce an elixir