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Definition of Cohobate
1. v. t. To repeat the distillation of, pouring the liquor back upon the matter remaining in the vessel.
Definition of Cohobate
1. Verb. (chemistry alchemy) To treat a material with a boiling liquid and repeatedly return the distillate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cohobate
1. to distill again [v -BATED, -BATING, -BATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cohobate
Literary usage of Cohobate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1898)
"Then take leaf gold 3ij AR §ij (made of AF and a quarter part of common salt),
then abstract the AR and cohobate four times. "Then dissolve it again, ..."
2. The Universal Receipt Book: Being a Compendious Repository of Practical by Priscilla Homespun (1818)
"Distil the whole in a water bath, and having extracted six quarts, return it by
the neck of the cucurbit and cohobate. Having a second time extracted five ..."
3. The Aesculapian Register: 1824. [Vol. 1, Nos. 1-26, June 17-Dec. 9, 1824]. (1824)
"Digest filings of a skull with SV and sage fifteen or twenty days; distil by a
retort, and digest fifteen days more; then cohobate thrice, after circulate ..."
4. The Book of formulas: a collection of choice Spagyric preparations by John Hazelrigg (1904)
"Lastly, having freed the solution from all corrosive spirits, cohobate with
SV., wormwood, or any other vegetable spirit, and TIE. by an alembic; ..."
5. Isis Unveiled: A Master-key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1892)
"... pour upon it the rectified oil, which abstract and cohobate seven times, till
such time as the powder has imbibed all the oil, ..."
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