† Lixiviate a. and sb.

Obs. Also 7 lixiviat, erron. lixivate. [f. LIXIVI-UM + -ATE².]

  A.  adj. Obtained by lixiviation; of or pertaining to a lixivium or to lixivial salts; alkaline.

1657.  G. Starkey, Helmont’s Vind., 318. Their [sc. Salts] Lixiviate Acrimony is somewhat hostile.

1663.  Boyle, Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos., II. App. 381. Those that … prescribe the lixiviat salts of plants. Ibid. (1680), Produc. Chem. Princ., I. 32. Egyptian Niter being acknowledged to be a Native Salt … is yet of a lixiviate nature.

1694.  Salmon, Bate’s Dispens. (1713), 301. The Salt … will … have lost all its lixivate Taste.

1718.  J. Chamberlayne, Relig. Philos. (1730), III. xxviii. § 11. A Lixiviate Salt will mix with Oil, and turn it into Soap.

1727.  in Bailey, vol. II.; and in mod. Dicts.

  B.  sb. A lixivium, alkali.

1677.  Plot, Oxfordsh., 41. The water turned … of … a brisk green colour, the Index of a lixiviate.

1824–8.  Landor, Imag. Conv., Wks. 1846, I. 59. He … washed them in a lixiviate.