elix

elix (third-person singular simple present elixes, present participle elixing, simple past and past participle elixed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To draw out or extract.
   • c. 1599 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], The History of Antonio and Mellida. The First Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Mathewe Lownes, and Thomas Fisher, […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     O that our muse / Had those abstruse and sinewy faculties / That with a strain of fresh invention / She might press out the rarity of art, / The pur'st elixed juice of rich conceit, / In your attentive ears, that with the lip / Of gracious elocution we might drink / A sound carouse unto your health of wit.

• elixir

• “elix”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Lexi, ilex

From ēliciō (“elicit, draw out”) +‎ -s, from ē- +‎ laciō; alternatively suggested to be a derivative of liqueō.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈeː.lɪks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛː.liks]

ēlix f (genitive ēlicis); third declension

1. (chiefly in the plural) drainage ditch

Third-declension noun.

• “elix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• elix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “elix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "elix", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)