English Explanatory Dictionary

elixate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To boil; to seethe.
  2. To extract by boiling or seething.

Word forms

elixate elixates elixating elixated

Etymology

From Latin ēlixātus, past participle of ēlixāre (“to seethe”), from ēlixus (“thoroughly boiled”), from ex + *lixus (“fluid, flowing”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- (“moist, to wet”) and thus cognate with Latin lixa (“water; lye”) and liqueō (“to be liquid, fluid”).

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