a. Now rare. [f. L. lixīvi-um lye + -OUS.] = LIXIVIAL a.
1658. Sir T. Browne, Hydriot., 31. The salt and lixivious liquor of the body.
1686. W. Harris, Lemery’s Course Chym., Introd. (ed. 3). 5. The Salt of Plants drawn after this manner, is called Lixivious Salt.
1757. A. Cooper, Distiller, I. xxiv. (1760), 99. Impregnated with a lixivious Taste from the alcaline Salts used in Rectification.
1761. Brit. Mag., II. 537. Those united Contraries (commixing oily with lixivious particles) compose together a new soluble, and saponaceous body.
1800. W. Saunders, Min. Waters, 227. [Seltzer water] has a gently saline and decidedly alkaline taste. If it be exposed to the air … it intirely loses its pungency, and the alkaline or lixivious flavour becomes proportionably stronger.
