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Colliquation   Listen
noun
Colliquation  n.  
1.
A melting together; the act of melting; fusion. "When sand and ashes are well melted together and suffered to cool, there is generated, by the colliquation, that sort of concretion we call "glass"."
2.
(Med.) A processive wasting or melting away of the solid parts of the animal system with copious excretions of liquids by one or more passages. (Obs.)





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"Colliquation" Quotes from Famous Books



... Liquefaction. -N. liquefaction; liquescence[obs3], liquescency[obs3]; melting &c. (heat) 384; colliquation|, colliquefaction|; thaw; liquation|, deliquation|, deliquescence; lixiviation[obs3], dissolution. solution, apozem[obs3], lixivium[obs3], infusion, flux. solvent, menstruum, alkahest[obs3]. V. render liquid &c. 333; ...
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