▪ I. † ˈvitriolate, a. Obs.
Also 7 vitriolet.
[ad. med. or mod.L. *vitriolāt-us, f. vitriolum vitriol. Cf. It. vitriolato, Sp. and Pg. vitriolado, F. vitriolé.]
1. Of or belonging to, resembling that of, vitriol.
| 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. xii. 336 A vitriolate or copperose quality conjoyning with a terrestrious and astringent humidity. 1665–6 Phil. Trans. I. 323 This had some⁓what of a Vitriolate taste. 1672 Boyle Ess. Gems 159 Particles which..I observ'd to be of a Vitriolate nature. |
2. Treated with vitriol. vitriolate tartar (see vitriolated 3 a).
| 1665 Needham Med. Medicinae 513 As we see in Tartar Vitriolate. 1671 Salmon Syn. Med. iii. lxxxiv. 730 Vitriolate Tartar taken in Broath,..extract of Hellebore [etc.]..are here good. 1684 tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. iii. 95, I gave him Spring-water corrected with Vitriolate Syrup of Rasberries. 1704 [see tartar1 3 b]. 1782 Kirwan in Phil. Trans. LXXIII. 40 The same double decomposition will be produced if, instead of tartar vitriolate, glauber's salt be used. |
3. Affected by, impregnated with, vitriol.
| 1666 Boyle Orig. Forms & Qual. 339 This Vitriolate Nitre (if I may so call it). 1670 H. Stubbe Plus Ultra 131 It is also..manifest, that there are in the bodies of men..solutions or liquors imbued with sundry salts, as aluminous, acid, and vitriolate, etc. 1684 Boyle Porousn. Anim. & Solid Bod. viii. 125 So that their Texture was spoiled by the saline and vitriolate Corpuscles. |
b. Of water, springs, etc.
| 1666 Phil. Trans. I. 359 That Pool..seems to be of Vitriolate water. 1667 Ibid. II. 469 The Iron, that is said to be turned into Copper, by the Vitriolate Springs at Cremnitz..in Hungary. 1670 Ibid. V. 1043 There are also two Springs of a Vitriolat water, which are affirm'd to turn iron into Copper. 1751 Eng. Gazetteer s.v. Worton-Lower, A vitriolate ferrugineous spring. |
▪ II. ˈvitriolate, v. rare.
[Cf. prec. and -ate3.]
trans. To affect or treat with vitriol; to render vitriolic.
| 1605 Timme Quersit. i. vii. 27 By reason of a singular temper of sharpness vitriolated by sweet and sulphurus spirits. 1828–32 Webster, Vitriolate, to convert, as sulphur in any compound, into sulphuric acid, formerly called vitriolic acid. |