alkalizate
English
editEtymology
editFrom post-classic Latin alcalizatus, past participle of alcalizo.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editalkalizate (comparative more alkalizate, superlative most alkalizate)
- (archaic) Alkaline. [from 17th c.]
- 1665, R[obert] Hooke, Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
- [P]erhaps some parts of the Earth through which it is to pass, may contain a Salt, that mixing and uniting with the Sea-salt, may precipitate it; much after the same manner as the Alkalizate and Acid Salts mix and precipitate each other in the preparation of Tartarum Vitriolatum.
- 1666, Robert Boyle, “The II. Section, Containing the Experiments. [Experiment V.]”, in The Origine of Formes and Qualities, (According to the Corpuscular Philosophy,) Illustrated by Considerations and Experiments, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Hen[ry] Hall printer to the University, for Ric[hard] Davis, →OCLC, page 330:
- Nor are theſe themſelves all the vvayes I took to manifeſt the Alkalizate Nature of our tranſmuted Sea ſalt.