v. [f. L. ēlixāt- ppl. stem of ēlixāre to boil, stew.]
1. trans. To boil, seethe; to extract by boiling.
1623. in Cockeram.
1631. 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.
