cohobate

American  

[koh-hoh-beyt] / ˈkoʊ hoʊˌbeɪt /

verb (used with object)

Pharmacology.

cohobated, cohobating

1. to distill again from the same or a similar substance, as by pouring a distilled liquid back upon the matter remaining in the vessel, or upon another mass of similar matter.

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cohobate British  

/ ˈkəʊhəʊˌbeɪt /

verb

1. (tr) pharmacol to redistil (a distillate), esp by allowing it to mingle with the remaining matter

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Other Word Forms

• cohobation
  noun
• cohobator
  noun

Etymology

Origin of cohobate

1635–45; < New Latin cohobātus (past participle of cohobāre ), equivalent to kohob repetition (Paracelsian term, perhaps < dialectal Arabic kaʿab second) + -ātus -ate ¹

Example Sentences

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cohobated cohobating

Whatever service rue may be of generally, it undoubtedly has its use in the two last cases: the cohobated water, however, is not the most efficacious preparation.

From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by Salisbury, William

The old drawings of alchemical operations show us men busy calcining, cohobating, distilling, dissolving, digesting, and performing other processes of like character to these.

From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by Muir, M. M. Pattison