A variant or archaic term related to alcohol or cohobation.
Possibly a variant or shortening of 'cohobation' or 'alcohol,' used in older alchemical and chemical texts. The exact origin and usage are obscure.
This word is so rare that it appears in comprehensive dictionaries mainly as a historical footnote—it's the kind of term that shows how fluid and experimental scientific vocabulary was in the early modern period.
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