1. The action of boiling or stewing.
1605. Timme, Quersit., III. 190. Elixation … is a concoction made by a moyst heate of a thing indifinitely existing in a humour.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 113. Finally they serue to moysten the guts, that their concoction may be celebrated by elixation or boyling.
1757. Walker, in Phil. Trans., L. 122. After elixation the water became of a turbid yellow colour with ochre.
2. Concoction in the stomach; digestion.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., I. i. II. v. Elixation, is the boyling of meat in the stomacke, by the said naturall heat.
1651. Biggs, New Disp., 96. But the rest of the pouder, as it is not overcome by elixation, so it continues in a permanency of indigestion in the stomack.
