cohobate

English

Etymology

From New Latin cohobātus, past participle of cohobāre, perhaps from Arabic كَعَّبَ (kaʕʕaba).[1]

Verb

cohobate (third-person singular simple present cohobates, present participle cohobating, simple past and past participle cohobated)

  1. (physical chemistry, alchemy) To treat a material with a boiling liquid and repeatedly return the distillate.

Translations

Noun

cohobate (plural cohobates)

  1. The concentrated distillate so formed

References

  1. ^ “cohobate”, in Collins English Dictionary.
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