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▪ I. † exsiccate, ppl. a. Obs.
Also 6 exiccat, 7 exc-, exsiccat, 8 exiccate.
[ad. L. exsiccāt- pa. pple. of exsiccāre: see next.]
Dried, dried up.
1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde 61 So that the preuy passage be left exiccat and Drye. 1613T. Godwin Rom. Antiq. (1658) 53 They were not ulcerous, exsiccate or impostumated. 1663J. Spencer Prodigies (1665) 42 The heated and exsiccate Air. 1773J. Ross Fratricide (MS.) ii. 747 O let me..think The fountains of thy eyes are exiccate.
fig.1622J. Abernethy Chr. Treat. Phys. Soul vi. 81 So in the spirituall hardnesse, the liquor of grace, of light, and of reason is exciccat.
▪ II. exsiccate, v.|ˈɛksɪkeɪt, ɛkˈsɪkeɪt|
Also 6 exc-, exiccate, 7–8 exiccate.
[f. ppl. stem of L. ex(s)iccāre, f. ex- (see ex- prefix1) + siccus dry.]
1. trans. To dry, make dry, absorb or remove all moisture from; to drain (a spring) dry; to dry up (moisture).
1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde 56 Let her auoyde such thynges the which shold exiccat..her. 1563T. Gale Antidot. ii. 11 These ij vnguentes are excellent in exciccating ericipelas. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. vi. 171 Bodies..that have been exsiccated into Mummy. 1679Plot Staffordsh. (1686) 87 The Spring near the Church..has been sometimes exsiccated. 1707J. Mortimer Husb. vii. i. (1708) 228 Heats and Droughts..exsiccate and waste the moisture and vegetative Nature of the Earth. 1809Pearson in Phil. Trans. XCIX. 327 This dissolution being exsiccated grew liquid on exposure to air.
absol.1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 67 Cortex Guaiaci hath the same vertue..but exsiccateth much more. 1627–47Feltham Resolves 209 Ayre exsiccates & drawes to itself.
2. intr. for refl. To dry up, lose all moisture.
1686Goad Celest. Bodies ii. xii. 321 'Tis a question worth while, adds he, how they can exsiccate.
Hence exsiccated ppl. a., exsiccating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1620Venner Via Recta vi. 106 They are of a more exiccating nature. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. iii. 68 The exsiccated powder..ascends not unto the Loadstone. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 3 By the heat of the Sun, or exsiccating power of the Air. 1799G. Smith Labor. I. 427 Throw common exsiccated salt in it. 1872O. W. Holmes Poet Breakf.-t. ix, That exsiccated..organism. |