Obs. Also 7 vapourate. [f. L. vapōrāt-, ppl. stem of vapōrāre to convert into, to become, vapor.]
1. trans. a. To convert into vapor, to vaporize.
1611. Florio, Vaporabile,… that may be vaporated.
b. To emit as vapor.
a. 1640. J. Ball, Power Godlines (1657), 119. A boyling Sea, or Sepulchre of corruption, steeming and vaporating up continually a world of … ill-disposed imaginations.
1648. Hexham, II. Swademen, to Exhale, or, to Vapourate.
2. intr. a. To rise in or as vapor.
1620. Venner, Via Recta, vii. 111. They represse and infrigidate the hot fumes that vaporate to the head.
1643. A. Ross, Mel Helic., 168. If Musk, Perfume, or rosed air, Or Balm could vaporate from thee.
b. To give off vapor.
1623. Cockeram, I. Vaporale, to cast forth vapours.
