▪ I. † ˈvaporate, ppl. a. Obs.—1
[ad. L. vapōrāt-us, pa. pple. of vapōrāre: see next.]
Vaporized.
| 1655 Stanley Hist. Philos. (1687) 552/2 Smelling judgeth of Odors, good and ill,..putrid, humid, liquid, vaporate. |
▪ II. † ˈvaporate, v. Obs.
Also 7 vapourate.
[f. L. vapōrāt-, ppl. stem of vapōrāre to convert into, to become, vapour.]
1. trans. a. To convert into vapour, to vaporize.
| 1611 Florio, Vaporabile,..that may be vaporated. |
b. To emit as a vapour.
| a 1640 J. Ball Power Godlines (1657) 119 A boyling Sea, or Sepulchre of corruption, steeming and vaporating up continually a world of..ill-disposed imaginations. 1648 Hexham ii, Swademen, to Exhale, or, to Vapourate. |
2. intr. a. To rise in or as vapour.
| 1620 Venner Via Recta vii. 111 They represse and infrigidate the hot fumes that vaporate to the head. 1643 A. Ross Mel Helic. 168 If Musk, Perfume, or rosed air, Or Balm could vaporate from thee. |
b. To give off vapour.
| 1623 Cockeram i, Vaporate, to cast forth vapours. |