calcined

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of calcine

adj

1. Converted by calcination.
2. (figuratively)Purified, refined.

   “[A]n ingenious man, who is ever on the watch for conquest, will, in his eagerness to exhibit his whole store of knowledge, furnish an attentive observer with some useful information, calcined by fancy and formed by taste.”