Definition of "colliquation" []

• The act of becoming liquid; melting. (noun)
• The wasting-away of parts of the body; consumption. (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "Moschio the physician said, that putrefaction was a colliquation of the flesh, and that everything that putrefied grew moister than before, and that all heat, if gentle, did stir the humors, though not force them out, but if strong, dry the flesh; and that from these considerations an answer to the question might be easily deduced."
• "But fire is no constant cause either of induration or colliquation; so then the physical causes are but the efficient and the matter."
• "Fire is the cause of induration, but respective to clay; fire is the cause of colliquation, but respective to wax."