saponify
(verb) convert into soap by hydrolizing an ester into an acid and alcohol as a result of treating it with an alkali; “saponify oils and fats”
saponify
(verb) become converted into soap by being hydrolized into an acid and alcohol as a result of being treated with an alkali; “the oil saponified”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
saponify (third-person singular simple present saponifies, present participle saponifying, simple past and past participle saponified)
(transitive) To convert (a fat or oil) into soap.
(intransitive) To be converted into soap.
(transitive, chemistry) To hydrolyze (an ester) using an alkali.
Source: Wiktionary
Sa*pon"i*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Saponified; p. pr. & vb. n. Saponifying.] Etym: [L. sapo, -onis, soap + -fy: cf. F. saponifier.]
Definition: To convert into soap, as tallow or any fat; hence (Chem.), to subject to any similar process, as that which ethereal salts undergo in decomposition; as, to saponify ethyl acetate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 May 2025
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
