cohobate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To treat a material with a boiling liquid and repeatedly return the distillate.
noun
  1. The concentrated distillate so formed

Word forms

cohobate cohobates cohobating cohobated

Etymology

From New Latin cohobātus, past participle of cohobāre, perhaps from Arabic كَعَّبَ (kaʕʕaba).

Related words

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