[f. ppl. stem of mod.L. lixīviāre, f. lixīvium LIXIVIUM. Cf. F. lixivier.]

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  1.  trans. To impregnate with lixivium or lye.

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1646–1794.  [see LIXIVIATED ppl. a.].

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1736.  Bailey, Houshold Dict., 112. Having been thus lixiviated they [sc. linens] are to be returned to the mill.

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1791.  Hamilton, Berthollet’s Dyeing, I. I. II. i. 153. He directs us to lixiviate the dressed hemp in a solution of soda.

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  2.  To subject to lixiviation.

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1758.  Reid, trans. Macquer’s Chem., I. 140. This coal when burnt falls into ashes, which being lixiviated with water, give a fixed alkali.

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1817.  J. Bradbury, Trav. Amer., 248. In order to obtain the nitre, the earth is collected and lixiviated.

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1827.  Faraday, Chem. Manip., xxiv. 608. Collect some charcoal ashes from the crucible furnace and lixiviate them.

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1854.  Chamb. Jrnl., II. 279. The great ocean lixiviates our earth.

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1876.  Harley, Mat. Med., 134. By lixiviating the saline soil over a filter of wood-ashes.

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  fig.  1796.  Burke, Let. Noble Lord, Wks. V. 60. Churches, play-houses, coffee-houses, all alike are destined to be … well-sifted, and lixiviated, to crystallize into true, democratick, explosive, insurrectionary nitre.

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  Hence Lixiviated ppl. a., Lixiviating vbl. sb. (in quot. attrib.).

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1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., III. iii. 110. The salt and lixiviated serosity with some portion of choler.

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1794.  Pearson, in Phil. Trans., LXXXIV. 391. The lixiviated carbonaceous matter being mixed with 300 grains of red oxyd of lead.

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1839.  Ure, Dict. Arts, 329. The lixiviated gahröste mixed with from 1/4 to 1/5 of the lixiviated dünnsteinrost.

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1881.  Brit. Trade Jrnl., XIX. 335. It is conveyed from the furnaces … to the laxiviating-pans [sic] … where it is crushed.

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