elixとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

elix (third-person singular simple present elixes, present participle elixing, simple past and past participle elixed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To draw out or extract.
   • c. 1599 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], The History of Antonio and Mellida. The First Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Mathewe Lownes, and Thomas Fisher, […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     O that our muse / Had those abstruse and sinewy faculties / That with a strain of fresh invention / She might press out the rarity of art, / The pur'st elixed juice of rich conceit, / In your attentive ears, that with the lip / Of gracious elocution we might drink / A sound carouse unto your health of wit.

語源

From ēliciō (“elicit, draw out”) +‎ -s, from ē- +‎ laciō; alternatively suggested to be a derivative of liqueō.