v. Obs. [f. colliquāt- ppl. stem of med. or early mod.L. colliquāre, f. col- together + liquāre to make liquid, melt: see -ATE3.]
1. trans. To melt or fuse together. Also fig.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 1153. Who being severed apart in body, conjoine and colliquate, as it were perforce, their soules together.
1680. Boyle, Scept. Chem., II. 150. When Ashes and Sand are Colliquated into Glass.
2. To make liquid; to reduce to the consistence of a liquid; to melt down.
1680. Boyle, Produc. Chem. Princ., I. 42. Colliquating moderate quantities of it [Sale-petre].
3. spec. in Old Phys. a. To reduce (the solids of the body) to a liquid consistence; to cause to waste away (cf. COLLIQUATION 3 b).
1666. G. Harvey, Morb. Angl. (1672), 49. The humours and Fat of the Kidneys are apt to be colliquated through a great heat from within.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., IV. 124. In poison … there is a heating, colliquating, and putrefactive quality.
b. To reduce (humours) to a thinner consistence.
1693. Phil. Trans., XVII. 726. Unless … the Humours [are] colliquated, or the Fever inclining to Malignancy.
1733. Stuart, ibid. XXXVIII. 2. These Volatile Salts … break down and colliquate the Blood.
4. intr. To become liquid, melt.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., II. i. 51. Ice … will colliquate in water.
