ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]
1. Exposed to the action of the air, supplied with air, charged with air.
1862. Ansted, Channel Isl., 10. The water is always well aërated, there is abundant vegetation.
1875. Richardson, Dis. Mod. Life, 34. The body, fed with a blood that is only partially aerated, is imperfectly heated.
2. Charged with carbonic acid gas (or oxygen), so as to effervesce; raised, as bread, by means of such effervescence. Also fig.
1794. Sullivan, View of Nat., I. 454. Ponderous spar, is a terra ponderosa, combined with the aerial acid, and aerated baroselenites.
1861. Wynter, Social Bees, 162. In the production … of aërated bread, the hand of the workman never touches the material.
1870. Lowell, Among my Bks., I. (1873), 21. The best English poetry … is understanding aerated by imagination.
1880. Beale, Slight Ailm., 149. Most practitioners recommend their patients to drink special aerated waters.
