A shortened form of ALCOHOLATE.
1828. Penny Cycl. (1833), I. 281/2. Dr. Graham has shown that, like water, it [alcohol] combines with bodies in definite proportions: these compounds he calls alcoates.
1833. Fyfe, Chem. (ed. 3), 649. The chlorids of common metals were found to be acted on in the same way, alcoates being formed.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, I. 58. Alcoholates or Alcoates.
