calcine

To heat (a substance) to remove its impurities and refine it.

To heat (a substance) without melting in order to drive off water, etc., and to oxidize or reduce it; specifically, to decompose (carbonates) into oxides, and, especially, to heat (limestone) to form quicklime.

Fire […] burneth and calcineth ſtone, vvhereof is made that morter vvhich bindeth all vvork in maſonry.

I ſent you of his fæces there, calcin'd. / Out of that calx, I'ha'vvonne the ſalt of Mercurie.

To heat (something) to dry and sterilize it.

To purify or refine (something).

To burn up (something) completely; to incinerate; hence, to destroy (something).

[A]s his death calcined thee to duſt, / His life may make thee gold, and much more juſt.

I vvould gladly knovv hovv Moſes vvith an actuall fire calcin'd or burnt the Golden Calfe unto povvder, for that myſticall metall of Gold, vvhoſe ſolary and celeſtiall nature I admire, expoſed unto the violence of fire, grovveth onely hot and liquifies, but conſumeth not: […]

Something calcined; also, material left over after burning or roasting.