deliquate

English

Etymology

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdɛlɪkweɪt/

Verb

deliquate (third-person singular simple present deliquates, present participle deliquating, simple past and past participle deliquated) (obsolete)

(transitive) To cause (something) to melt away; to consume, to dissolve.
(intransitive) To melt or be dissolved; to deliquesce.
- 1669, Robert Boyle, “Experiment XII. About the Differing Heights whereto Liquors will be Elevated by Suction, according to Their Several Specifick Gravities.”, in A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, and Their Effects. The I. Part. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Henry Hall, printer to the University, for Richard Davis, →OCLC, page 37:
  I caus'd an unuſual Brine to be made, by ſuffering Sea-ſalt to deliquate in the moiſt Air.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “deliquate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

eliquated

Latin

Participle

dēliquāte

vocative masculine singular of dēliquātus