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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
saltDe-crep′i-tate
,Verb.
I.
To crackle, as salt in roasting.
Webster 1828 Edition
Decrepitate
DECREPITATE
,Verb.
T.
DECREPITATE
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
decrepitate
decrepitate
English
Verb
decrepitate (third-person singular simple present decrepitates, present participle decrepitating, simple past and past participle decrepitated)
- (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.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Folio 2007, p. 333:
- (intransitive) Of salts and minerals, to crackle when heated, indicating a sudden breakdown of their particles.