Definition of Decrepitated

1. decrepitate [v] - See also: decrepitate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decrepitated

decremental
decremental conduction
decrementation
decremented
decrementing
decrements
decreolization
decreolizations
decreolize
decreolized
decreolizes
decreolizing
decrepid
decrepit
decrepitate
decrepitated (current term)
decrepitates
decrepitating
decrepitation
decrepitations
decrepitaton
decrepitatons
decrepitly
decrepitness
decrepitude
decrepitudes
decrepity
decrescendi
decrescendo
decrescendoed

Literary usage of Decrepitated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Philosophical Transactions by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1803)
"One of these crystals, exposed to the flame of the blowpipe, decrepitated and became opaque, and shone with a green light, but seemed totally infusible. ..."

2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1789)
"... when either decrepitated, or regenerated, thrown into boiling water, increased its heat in pro* portion to the quantity of fait ..."

3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1789)
"... decrepitated, or regenerated, thrown into boiling water, ... but in a lefs degree than decrepitated common fait, and, lome of them, ..."

4. Mackenzie's five thousand receipts in all the useful and domestic arts by Colin MacKenzie (1853)
"1 assay quintal of the ore; 1 of decrepitated sea-salt; 4 of powdered charcoal; and 1 of fluor- •[iar, and the process conducted as above. ..."

5. The Operative Mechanic, and British Machinist: Being a Practical Display of by John Nicholson (1825)
"Take 2 assay quintals of it, and triturate with one of fluor-spar, J of a quintal of powdered charcoal, 4 quintals of decrepitated sea salt; this mixture is ..."

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