ppl. a. [f. prec. or VITRIOLATE a.]

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  † 1.  = VITRIOLATE a. 1. Obs.–1

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1651.  Biggs, New Disp., ¶ 144. The acid saline vitriolated qualities of wine, vineger, or juice of Limons.

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  2.  Impregnated with vitriol: a. Of liquids.

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a. 1626.  Meverel, in Bacon’s Physiol. Rem. (1679), 125. Iron may be dissolved by any tart, salt, or vitriolated Water.

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1670.  H. Stubbe, Plus Ultra, 154. The vitriolated Serum would not flame; the vitriolated blood did burn with a brisk but short flame.

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1756.  F. Home, Exper. Bleaching, 185. The liquor more acid than the vitriolated liquor in the foregoing experiment.

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  b.  Of minerals, etc., affected by native sulphates.

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1794.  R. J. Sulivan, View Nat., I. 250. Vitriolated clay, or alum, is rarely found.

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1796.  Kirwan, Elem. Min. (ed. 2), II. 113. Mr. Bergman … deduces the origin of Vitriolated Silver, from the withering and Acidification of the Sulphurated Silver Ores.

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1802–3.  trans. Pallas’s Trav. (1812), I. 87. The vitriolated layers of mire still exhibit traces of sea-weeds and marshes.

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1805.  W. Saunders, Min. Waters, 49. Any spring of water that flows in the neighbourhood, will hence contain both alum and vitriolated iron.

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  3.  Treated with vitriol: a. Vitriolated tartar, sulphate of potassium. (Cf. TARTAR1 3 b.)

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1694.  Salmon, Bate’s Dispens. (1713), 628/1. Antimonial Tartar vitriolated.

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1728.  Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Tartar, Tartar Vitriolated, which some call Magistery of Tartar, is Oil of Tartar mix’d with rectify’d Spirit of Vitriol.

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1758.  Reid, trans. Macquer’s Chym., I. 25. Vitriolated Tartar is almost as hard to dissolve in water as the Selenites.

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1789.  Trans. Soc. Arts, I. 183. An innocent neutral salt, vitriolated tartar.

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1836.  Brande, Chem. (ed. 4), 36. The residuum in the retort furnishes vitriolated tartar.

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1887.  Buck’s Handbk. Med. Sci., V. 795/2. Potassic sulphate … is the salt formerly called vitriolated tartar and sal de duobus.

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  b.  With other sbs., as ammonia, iron, etc.

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1788.  Phil. Trans., LXXVIII. 395. Of vitriolated natron (Glauber’s salt) four parts.

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1799.  Monthly Rev., XXX. 67. Eight grains of myrrh, a grain and a half of vitriolated iron.

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1801.  Encycl. Brit., Suppl. I. 360/1. Sulphat of ammonia … was also called vitriolated ammoniac.

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1804.  Abernethy, Surg. Obs. (1827), 169. I gave her emetics of vitriolated zinc and copper.

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1823.  Crabb, Technol. Dict., Vitriolated Alkali (Chem.), the sulphate of potash.

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