Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A melting or fusing together; the reduction of different bodies to one mass by fusion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A melting together; the reduction of different bodies into one mass by fusion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
melting together; thereduction of different bodies into onemass byfusion .
Etymologies
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Latin colliquefactus melted; col- + liquefacere.
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Examples
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The female after parturition is peculiarly subject to this colliquefaction; it becomes stupid; if tossed about by waves, it submits impassively; a man, if he dived, could catch it with the hand; it gets covered over with slime, and makes no effort to catch its wonted prey.
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