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Lixiviate

//lɪkˈsɪvieɪt// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts.
  2. 2
    Impregnated with salts from wood ashes.

    "but we cou'd not, by this way, discern the least acidity in our arsenical solution, but rather a manifest sign of an urinous or lixiviate quality"

Noun
  1. 1
    leachate
Verb
  1. 1
    To separate (a substance) into soluble and insoluble components through percolation; to leach.

    "[…]the Slaves are out in the Storm, doing their Owners’ Laundry, observing and reading each occurrence of Blood, Semen, Excrement, Saliva, Urine, Sweat, Road-Mud, dead Skin, and other such Data of Biography, whose pure form they practice Daily, before all is lixiviated ’neath Heaven."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from a Medieval Latin lixīvio, lixīviātus, or formed from the root of lixīvium, lixīvia, from lixīvius (“made into lye”), from lixa (“water, lye, ashes”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from a Medieval Latin lixīvio, lixīviātus, or formed from the root of lixīvium, lixīvia, from lixīvius (“made into lye”), from lixa (“water, lye, ashes”).

Etymology 3

Borrowed from a Medieval Latin lixīvio, lixīviātus, or formed from the root of lixīvium, lixīvia, from lixīvius (“made into lye”), from lixa (“water, lye, ashes”).

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