Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To wash or percolate the soluble matter from (solid material).
from The Century Dictionary.
- To subject to the process of lixiviation; form into lye; impregnate with salts from wood-ashes: as, lixiviated water.
- Pertaining to lye or lixivium; of the nature of alkaline salts.
- Impregnated with salts from wood-ashes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances.
- adjective Of or pertaining to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts.
- adjective Impregnated with salts from wood ashes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
separate (a substance) intosoluble andinsoluble components throughpercolation ; toleach . - adjective Of or relating to
lye orlixivium ; of the quality ofalkaline salts . - adjective
Impregnated withsalts fromwood ashes .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They lixiviate the soil and boil the water, which has filtered through a bunch of grass in a hole in the bottom of a pot, till all is evaporated and a mass of salt left.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874
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Javita lixiviate also the ashes of the famous liana called cupana, which is a new species of the genus paullinia, consequently a very different plant from the cupania of Linnaeus.
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They lixiviate the soil and boil the water, which has filtered through
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 David Livingstone 1843
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Besides the spadix and the fruit of the seje palm, the Indians of Javita lixiviate also the ashes of the famous liana called cupana, which is a new species of the genus paullinia, consequently a very different plant from the cupania of Linnaeus.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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