calcine verb. ['kalsʌɪn, -sɪn] LME.
[Old French calciner or medieval Latin calcinare, from late Latin calcina lime, from Latin calc-, CALX.]
1. verb trans.
a. Reduce by roasting or burning to quicklime or a similar friable substance or powder. LME.
b. gen. Burn to ashes, consume by fire; roast. E17.
c. fig. Consume or purify as if by fire. M17-E18.

2. verb intrans. Undergo any of these processes. E18.
■ V. S. Naipaul In the dry season the earth baked, cracked, and calcined.

■ cal'cinable adjective M17.

■ cal'ciner noun (a) rare a person who calcines; (b) a kiln or other apparatus for calcining: M17.

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