Old Chem. Also 8 cohabation. [n. of action f. COHOBATE.] The operation of cohobating (see prec.); redistillation.
1605. Timme, Quersit., I. xiii. 57. If … the oylely liquor of his proper sulphur … be drawen forth with sundry cohobations and extillations.
1610. B. Jonson, Alch., II. v.
1657. G. Starkey, Helmont’s Vind., 241. The sweet oyl of mercury … by cohobation with the fire of Hell (that is, the Alcahest) becomes volatile.
1754. Lewis, Platina, in Phil. Trans., XLVIII. 65. The cohobation was repeated four times, the distill’d liquor proving paler and paler every time. Ibid. (1783), LXXIII. 28. In all these cases … more of the metal will be taken up by distillation and cohobation.
