English edit

Etymology edit

tartar +‎ -ize

Verb edit

tartarize (third-person singular simple present tartarizes, present participle tartarizing, simple past and past participle tartarized)

  1. (chemistry, transitive) To impregnate with, or subject to the action of, tartar.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tartarize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)