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Webster 1913 Edition


Decrepitate

De-crep′i-tate

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Decrepitated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Decrepitating
.]
[Cf. F.
décrépiter
.]
To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise;
as, to
decrepitate
salt
.

De-crep′i-tate

,
Verb.
I.
To crackle, as salt in roasting.

Webster 1828 Edition


Decrepitate

DECREPITATE

,
Verb.
T.
[L. To break or burst, to crackle.] To roast or calcine in a strong heat, with a continual bursting or crackling of the substance; as, to decrepitate salt.

DECREPITATE

,
Verb.
I.
To crackle, as salts when roasting.

Definition 2024


decrepitate

decrepitate

English

Verb

decrepitate (third-person singular simple present decrepitates, present participle decrepitating, simple past and past participle decrepitated)

  1. (transitive) To roast (a salt or mineral) until it stops crackling in the fire.
    • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Folio 2007, p. 333:
      so will it come to pass in a pot of salt, although decrepitated; and so also in a pot of Snow.
  2. (intransitive) Of salts and minerals, to crackle when heated, indicating a sudden breakdown of their particles.