ˈvitriolated, ppl. a.
[f. prec. or vitriolate a.]
† 1. = vitriolate a. 1. Obs.—1
| 1651 Biggs New Dispens. ¶144 The acid saline vitriolated qualities of wine, vineger, or juice of Limons. |
2. Impregnated with vitriol: a. Of liquids.
| a 1626 Meverel in Bacon's Physiol. Rem. (1679) 125 Iron may be dissolved by any tart, salt, or vitriolated Water. 1670 H. Stubbe Plus Ultra 154 The vitriolated Serum would not flame; the vitriolated blood did burn with a brisk but short flame. 1756 F. Home Exper. Bleaching 185 The liquor more acid than the vitriolated liquor in the foregoing experiment. |
b. Of minerals, etc., affected by native sulphates.
| 1794 R. J. Sulivan View Nat. I. 250 Vitriolated clay, or alum, is rarely found. 1796 Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) II. 113 Mr. Bergman..deduces the origin of Vitriolated Silver, from the withering and Acidification of the Sulphurated Silver Ores. 1802–3 tr. Pallas's Trav. (1812) I. 87 The vitriolated layers of mire still exhibit traces of sea-weeds and marshes. 1805 W. Saunders Min. Waters 49 Any spring of water that flows in the neighbourhood, will hence contain both alum and vitriolated iron. |
3. Treated with vitriol: a. vitriolated tartar, sulphate of potassium. (Cf. tartar1 3 b.)
| 1694 Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 628/1 Antimonial Tartar vitriolated. 1728 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Tartar, Tartar Vitriolated, which some call Magistery of Tartar, is Oil of Tartar mix'd with rectify'd Spirit of Vitriol. 1758 Reid tr. Macquer's Chym. I. 25 Vitriolated Tartar is almost as hard to dissolve in water as the Selenites. 1789 Trans. Soc. Arts I. 183 An innocent neutral salt, vitriolated tartar. 1836 Brande Chem. (ed. 4) 36 The residuum in the retort furnishes vitriolated tartar. 1887 Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. V. 795/2 Potassic sulphate..is the salt formerly called vitriolated tartar and sal de duobus. |
b. With other ns., as ammonia, iron, etc.
| 1788 Phil. Trans. LXXVIII. 395 Of vitriolated natron (Glauber's salt) four parts. 1799 Monthly Rev. XXX. 67 Eight grains of myrrh, a grain and a half of vitriolated iron. 1801 Encycl. Brit. Suppl. I. 360/1 Sulphat of ammonia..was also called vitriolated ammoniac. 1804 Abernethy Surg. Obs. (1827) 169, I gave her emetics of vitriolated zinc and copper. 1823 Crabb Technol. Dict., Vitriolated Alkali (Chem.), the sulphate of potash. |