[f. TARTARIZE v.1 + -ED1; cf. F. tartarisé, mod.L. tartarizatus.]
1. Rectified by treatment with cream of tartar.
a. 1648. Digby, Chym. Secr. (1683), 70. Tartarised S[piritus] V[ini].
1694. Salmon, Bate’s Dispens., I. ii. (1713), 60/2. This Tartaris’d volatile Spirit, is highly deobstructive.
1758. Reid, trans. Macquer’s Chym., I. 115. Ardent spirits may be freed from much of their phlegm by means of these salts thoroughly dried…. When rectified in this manner it is called Tartarised Spirit of Wine.
1844. J. T. Hewlett, Parsons & W., xxv. Fiery, tartarized, brandied products of Spain.
2. Mixed or impregnated with tartar; holding tartar in solution.
1694. Salmon, Bate’s Dispens., II. vi. (1713), 593/1. A Tartarised Julep.
1710. T. Fuller, Pharm. Extemp., 83. Elixir Proprietatis Tartarised 4 scruples.
1784. M. Underwood, Dis. Childr. (1799), I. 27. The tartarised wine of antimony is a very proper [emetic].
1802–3. trans. Pallas’s Trav. (1812), I. 353. The tartarised spirit of sal ammoniac rendered the water white as milk.
3. Combined with tartaric acid, so as to form a tartrate: = TARTRATED.
1732. Hist. Litteraria, IV. 27. A tedious way of preparing Tartarised Tartar.
1758. Reid, trans. Macquer’s Chym., I. 126. Soluble Tartar. It is also called the Vegetable Salt, as being obtained from vegetables only; and again Tartarized Tartar, because it consists of the acid and the alkali of Tartar combined together.
1788. Walker, in Phil. Trans., LXXVIII. 398. Tartarized natron (Rochelle salt).
1796. Kirwan, Elem. Min. (ed. 2), II. 470. Tartarised Iron being more soluble than Tartarised Uranite.
1857. Miller, Elem. Chem., III. 330. A solution of tartarized antimony acts as a violent emetic and cathartic poison.
Tartarized, ppl. a.2: see TARTARIZE v.2
