Obs. rare. [f. prec. sb.] trans. To distil as an elixir; to work upon as by an elixir. Also absol. Hence Elixired ppl. a., concentrated, refined. Also fig.
a. 1658. Lovelace, To J. Hall, Wks. (1864), 252. Thou hast so spirited, elixir’d, we Conceive there is a noble alchymie. Ibid., Toad & Spider, 200. Then in his self the lymbeck turns, And his elixir’d poyson urns.
1660. Ognell, Elegy, in Lovelace’s Wks. (1864), 289. This elixir’d medecine, For greatest grief a soveraign anodyne.
1687. Elegy on Cleveland, in Wks. 277. Rich in Elixar’d Measures, and in all that could breath Sense in Airs Emphatical.
