vitriolate (plural vitriolates)
(chemistry, obsolete) A sulfate.
vitriolate (third-person singular simple present vitriolates, present participle vitriolating, simple past and past participle vitriolated)
To convert into, or change to, a vitriol; to make into sulphuric acid or a sulphate.
To subject to the action of, or impregnate with, vitriol.
Source: Wiktionary
Vit"ri*o*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vitriolated; p. pr. & vb. n. Vitriolating.] (Old Chem.) (a) To convert into, or change to, a vitriol; to make into sulphuric acid or a sulphate. (b) To subject to the action of, or impregnate with, vitriol.
Vit"ri*o*late, a.
Definition: Vitriolated. [R.]
Vit"ri*o*late, n. (Old Chem.)
Definition: A sulphate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 June 2025
(verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling; “he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends”
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.
