v. Chem. Obs. rare. [f. E- pref.3 + LIXIVIATE to clear of lye.] trans. To clear from lixivium or lye; to refine thoroughly. Hence Elixiviate, Elixiviated ppl. a., that has lost its lye, that has lost its essential properties. Elixiviation, steeping in water for the sake of extracting the lye.
1674. Phil. Trans., IX. 70. Several Minerals and Pyrites, which are to the tast altogether insipid and elixiviated, would yield not a grain of Salt.
1675. Evelyn, Terra (1729), 42. By the Air, the most efflete and elixiviated Mould comes to be repair’d.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., XIX. 852/1. Salt of Vitriol is prescribed to be made … of an elixiviate Colcothar.
1684–5. Boyle, Min. Waters, 23. Examining these substances by … elixiviation.
1748. Phil. Trans., XLV. 542. The Art of converting their Wood-ashes into Pot-ash, without the tedious Process of Elixiviation.
1756. C. Lucas, Ess. Waters, I. 6. The artificial, are those, that are extracted … by … elixiviation.
