"decrepitate" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Folio, published 2007, page 333:",
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        "(transitive) To roast (a salt or mineral) until it stops crackling in the fire."
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