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plural elixations
(now rare) Boiling, stewing.
(now rare) Digestion (in the stomach). quotations
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.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps
(obsolete, chemistry) Boiling in order to produce an elixir