Lixiviate
adj, noun, verb ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 leachate
- 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."
- 1 Of or relating to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts.
- 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"
Example
More examples"[…]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
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”).