ACIDIFIED

ACIDIFY

acidify, acetify

(verb) turn acidic; “the solution acetified”

sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify

(verb) make sour or more sour

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

acidified

simple past tense and past participle of acidify

Source: Wiktionary


ACIDIFY

A*cid"i*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Acidified; p. pr. & vb. n. Acidifying.] Etym: [L. acidus sour, acid + -fy: cf. F. acidifier.]

1. To make acid; to convert into an acid; as, to acidify sugar.

2. To sour; to imbitter. His thin existence all acidified into rage. Carlyle.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Coffee Trivia

Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.

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