transcolate

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Etymology[edit]

From trans- + Latin colare, colatum (to filter, to strain).

Verb[edit]

transcolate (third-person singular simple present transcolates, present participle transcolating, simple past and past participle transcolated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To strain, as if through a sieve.
    • 1615, Helkiah Crooke, Mikrokosmographia:
      The vrine is transcolated through the flesh of the kidneis.

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