To heat and fuse metals together; to melt and blend metals into an alloy.
From Latin e- (out) + liquare (to melt or liquefy) + -ate (verb suffix). The Latin root means 'to make liquid,' and the prefix intensifies the action.
Medieval alchemists used 'eliquate' when they heated metals together—it's the technical term showing that metallurgy was a precise, documented craft long before modern chemistry, not just mystical mumbling.
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