calcine
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: alchemy
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
pseudoscience
Etymology: The verb is derived from Late Middle English calcinen (“(alchemy, medicine) to heat (something) until it turns to powder; to change the nature of (something) by heating”) [and other forms], from Old French calciner (modern French calciner (“to calcinate; to calcine”)) and from its etymon Medieval Latin calcināre (“(alchemy) to burn like lime; to reduce to calx”), from Late Latin calcīna (“inorganic material containing calcium, lime”) + -āre (suffix forming present active infinitive forms of verbs). Calcīna is derived from Latin calcis, the genitive singular of calx (“chalk; limestone”), possibly from Ancient Greek χᾰ́λῐξ (khắlĭx, “small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble”); further etymology unknown, possibly Pre-Greek.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Inflected forms:
form: calcines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: calcining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: calcined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: calcined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: calcine
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: calcine
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: calcined
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: calcine
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: calcinest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: calcined
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: calcinedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: calcines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: calcineth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: calcined
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: calcine
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: calcined
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: calcine
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: calcined
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: calcine
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: calcining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: calcined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: calcines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To heat (a substance) to remove its impurities and refine it.
pos: verb
tags: historical
transitive
gloss: To heat (a substance) without melting in order to drive off water, etc., and to oxidize or reduce it; specifically, to decompose (carbonates) into oxides, and, especially, to heat (limestone) to form quicklime.
pos: verb
tags: physical
transitive
examples: Fire […] burneth and calcineth ſtone, vvhereof is made that morter vvhich bindeth all vvork in maſonry.
I ſent you of his fæces there, calcin'd. / Out of that calx, I'ha'vvonne the ſalt of Mercurie.
gloss: To heat (something) to dry and sterilize it.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
transitive
gloss: To purify or refine (something).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
gloss: To burn up (something) completely; to incinerate; hence, to destroy (something).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: [A]s his death calcined thee to duſt, / His life may make thee gold, and much more juſt.
I vvould gladly knovv hovv Moſes vvith an actuall fire calcin'd or burnt the Golden Calfe unto povvder, for that myſticall metall of Gold, vvhoſe ſolary and celeſtiall nature I admire, expoſed unto the violence of fire, grovveth onely hot and liquifies, but conſumeth not: […]
Fiery diſputes, that Union have calcin'd, / Almoſt as many minds as men vve find, / And vvhen that flame finds combuſtible Earth, / VVhence Fatuus fires and Meteors take their birth, / Legions of Sects, and Inſects come in throngs; / To name them all, vvould tire a hundred tongues.
It nothing skills: I cannot help my case: / The Judgment's fire alone can cure this place, / Calcine its clods and set my prisoners free.
[…] He fain had calcined all Northumbria / To one black ash, but that thy patriot passion / Siding with our great Council against Tostig, / Out-passion'd his!
gloss: Of a substance: to undergo heating so as to oxidize it.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
physical
examples: This Cryſtal is a pellucid fiſſile Stone, clear as Water or Cryſtal of the Rock, and without Colour; enduring a red Heat without loſing its tranſparency, and in a very ſtrong Heat calcining without Fuſion.
gloss: Something calcined; also, material left over after burning or roasting.
pos: noun
Derived words: calcinable
calcinate
calcination
calcinator
calcinatory
calcined
calciner
calcining
calcinize
precalcine
recalcination
recalcine
uncalcined
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