extill

English

Etymology

From Latin extillare, exstillare, from ex (“out”) + stillare (“to drop”), stilla (“drop”).

Verb

extill (third-person singular simple present extills, present participle extilling, simple past and past participle extilled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To drop or distill.
   • 1657, Jean de Renou, Oylof Mace may be extilled after the fame manner : it calefies and digefts frigid humours:

     Oyl of Mace may be extilled after the ſame manner : it calcfies and digeſts frigid humours

References

• “extill”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.