macerate

verbliquefy

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verb liquefy

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Word Origin & History

late 15c., a back-formation from maceration or else from Latin maceratus, past participle of macerare "soften, make soft, soak, steep," related to maceria "garden wall," originally "of kneaded clay," from PIE *mak-ero-, suffixed form of root *mag- "to knead" (cf. Greek magis "kneaded mass, cake," mageus "one who kneads, baker;" Old Church Slavonic mazo "to anoint, smear;" Breton meza "to knead;" Middle Irish maistir "to churn"), also "to fashion, fit" (cf. make (v.)). Related: Macerated; macerating.

Example Sentences for macerate

They put some gum in the water in which they macerate the raggs.

They put some gum in the water in which they macerate the rags.

It is not advisable to macerate more than 50 grams in one operation.

Macerate about 20 grams of the sample after mixing with 30 to 40 cc.

These two drugs have the power to macerate dry, hard tissues.

Macerate the opium with 1⁄2 pint of the water for 24 hours, and express.

Macerate for 10 days in a stoppered bottle, express, and filter.

Macerate in a close vessel for a fortnight, then filter and bottle for sale.

After this, the water is drawn off into a second vat in which are placed more beets, and allowed to macerate again for an hour.

For those who macerate the body, and long to put on immortality, are only in a kind of dream.

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