dephlegmation

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Etymology

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Compare French déflegmation.

Noun

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dephlegmation (countable and uncountable, plural dephlegmations)

  1. (chemistry, obsolete) The operation of separating water from spirits and acids, by evaporation or repeated distillation; concentration.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dephlegmation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)