elixation

See also: élixation

English

Etymology

From Latin ēlixāre.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɛlɪkˈseɪʃən/

Noun

elixation (plural elixations)

1. (now rare) Boiling, stewing.
2. (now rare) Digestion (in the stomach).
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
     , Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.156:

     Elixation is the seething of meat in the stomach, by the said natural heat, as meat s boiled in a pot; to which corruption or putrefaction is opposite.

3. (obsolete, chemistry) Boiling in order to produce an elixir