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Lixiviate

Lix·iv'i·ate, a.

adjective

a. [See infra.]

Lix·iv′i·āte, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. LIXIVIATED; p. pr. & vb. n. LIXIVIATING.] [From lixivium, q. v.; It. lissiviare.] To subject to the process of lixiviation; to leach; to impregnate with salts from wood-ashes.

All alike are destined to be . . . well sifted and lixiviated, to crystallize into true democratic, explosive, insurrectionary niter. Burke.