Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The cooking, especially of meat, by boiling; extraction by boiling; also, concoction in the stomach; digestion.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A seething; digestion.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Boiling, stewing.
  • noun Digestion (in the stomach).

Etymologies

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From Latin ēlixāre.

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  • Of this digestion there be three differences — maturation, elixation, assation.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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