lixiviate

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Etymology

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Borrowed from a Medieval Latin lixīvio, lixīviātus, or formed from the root of lixīvium, lixīvia, from lixīvius (made into lye), from lixa (water, lye, ashes).

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Verb

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lixiviate (third-person singular simple present lixiviates, present participle lixiviating, simple past and past participle lixiviated)

  1. To separate (a substance) into soluble and insoluble components through percolation; to leach.
    • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 88–89:
      [] the Slaves are out in the Storm, doing their Owners’ Laundry, observing and reading each occurrence of Blood, Semen, Excrement, Saliva, Urine, Sweat, Road-Mud, dead Skin, and other such Data of Biography, whose pure form they practice Daily, before all is lixiviated ’neath Heaven.

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Adjective

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lixiviate (comparative more lixiviate, superlative most lixiviate)

  1. Of or relating to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts.
  2. Impregnated with salts from wood ashes.
    • 1685, Robert Boyle, Short Memoirs for the Natural Experimental History of Mineral Waters:
      but we cou'd not, by this way, discern the least acidity in our arsenical solution, but rather a manifest sign of an urinous or lixiviate quality

Noun

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lixiviate (plural lixiviates)

  1. leachate

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Verb

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lixiviate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of lixiviar combined with te