Middle English Dictionary Entry
calcināt ppl.
Entry Info
| Forms | calcināt ppl. |
| Etymology | ML & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Alch. Reduced by calcination, calcined.
Associated quotations
- a1550 *Ripley CAlch.(BodeMus 63)44b : Aurum potabile thus is made Of gold not comenlie calcinate, But of our tincture which will not fade.
- a1550 *Ripley CAlch.(BodeMus 63)60b : For when our bodies be so calcinate That watter will to oile dissolve them sone.