Having had foam, froth, or scum removed; clarified by skimming off surface matter.
Past tense form of despumate, formed regularly by adding -ed to the verb stem.
This past participle is so rare that modern dictionaries barely acknowledge it exists—yet it perfectly captures a specific moment in medieval science when removing visible impurities from liquids seemed like genuine progress.
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