cohobating

Variant of cohobate

cohobate definition

co·ho·bate (kō′hō bāt′)

transitive verb cohobated -·bat′ed, cohobating -·bat′·ing

to redistill (a distillate) one or more times

Etymology: < pp. of ModL cohobare, orig. to give a darker color to (a distilled liquid) < Ar qohba, brownish color

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