a. trans. To distil; to refine by distillation. Also absol. b. To cleanse in general, to purify.
1605. Timme, Quersit., Pref. 7. Every meane Apothecarie … should wel understand how to elixerate.
1694. Westmacott, Script. Herb., 27. Every chymical and rational brain can elixyrate such domestic wines. Ibid., 216. The volatile parts … ascend to the brain and heart … elixirating the animal spirits.
1733. Phil. Trans., XXXVIII. 64. By the Means of these Salts … the faces Alvinæ are the better elixirated.
Hence Elixirated ppl. a.
1657. G. Starkey, Helmont’s Vind., 321. Imagining your self to be Master of these elixerated Oyls, and essencificated Salts.
1670. W. Simpson, Hydrol. Ess., 125. Graduated to so high an elixerated liquor.
