deliquate

First attested in 1617; borrowed from Latin dēliquātus, perfect passive participle of dēliquō (“to clarify, skim a liquid”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛlɪkweɪt/

deliquate (third-person singular simple present deliquates, present participle deliquating, simple past and past participle deliquated) (obsolete)

1. (transitive) To cause (something) to melt away; to consume, to dissolve.
2. (intransitive) To melt or be dissolved; to deliquesce.
   • 1669, Robert Boyle, “Experiment XII. About the Differing Heights whereto Liquors will be Elevated by Suction, according to Their Several Specifick Gravities.”, in A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, and Their Effects. The I. Part. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Henry Hall, printer to the University, for Richard Davis, →OCLC, page 37:

     I caus'd an unuſual Brine to be made, by ſuffering Sea-ſalt to deliquate in the moiſt Air.

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

• eliquated

dēliquāte

1. vocative masculine singular of dēliquātus