calcine

1. (transitive)historicaltransitive

2. (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."Synonyms: calcinate, charkphysicaltransitive

3. (transitive)broadlytransitive

4. (transitive)figurativelytransitive

5. (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."Synonyms: calcinizefigurativelytransitive

6. (intransitive, physical chemistry) Of a substance: to undergo heating so as to oxidize it.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."intransitivephysical