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Definition of Acetify
1. Verb. Make sour or more sour.
Generic synonyms: Change Taste
Derivative terms: Acetum, Acetum, Acid, Acid, Sour, Sour
Antonyms: Sweeten
2. Verb. Turn acidic. "The solution acetified"
Category relationships: Chemical Science, Chemistry
Generic synonyms: Change State, Turn
Derivative terms: Acetum, Acid, Acidification
Antonyms: Alkalize
Definition of Acetify
1. v. t. To convert into acid or vinegar.
2. v. i. To turn acid.
Definition of Acetify
1. Verb. (transitive) To convert into acid or vinegar. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To turn acid - Encyc. Dom. Econ ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Acetify
1. to convert into vinegar [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES]
Medical Definition of Acetify
1. To convert into acid or vinegar. Origin: L. Acetum = vinegar. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acetify
Literary usage of Acetify
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Chemistry by Andrew Ure (1828)
"The used casks, called mothers, are never emptied more than half, but are
successively filled again, to acetify new portions of wine. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and Mineralogy: With Their Applications by Andrew Ure, William Nicholson (1831)
"The used casks, called mathers, are never emptied more than half, but are
successively filled again, to acetify new portions of wine. ..."
3. The Standard-phonographic Dictionary by Andrew Jackson Graham (1890)
"See A • acetify ... and between their respective derivatives, write acetify and
its deriva- 1i\ (-ч in the first position, the punition of (/rv/«m, ..."
4. Report in Respect of the Inquiry as to Effluvium Nuisances Arising in by Edward Ballard (1882)
"But when the washing with hot water is performed too slowly the weak saccharine
solution which results is apt to acetify, and this produces a similar result ..."
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