Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To boil; seethe; extract by boiling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To boil; to seethe; hence, to extract by boiling or seething.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
boil ; toseethe . - verb obsolete, by extension To
extract by boiling or seething.
Etymologies
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Latin elixatus, past participle of elixare to seethe, from elixus thoroughly boiled; e + lixare to boil, lix ashes.
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