Obs. Also 7 vitriolet. [ad. med. or mod.L. *vitriolāt-us, f. vitriolum vitriol. Cf. It. vitriolato, Sp. and Pg. vitriolado, F. vitriolé.]
1. Of or belonging to, resembling that of, vitriol.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., VI. xii. 336. A vitriolate or copperose quality conjoyning with a terrestrious and astringent humidity.
1665–6. Phil. Trans., I. 323. This had somewhat of a Vitriolate taste.
1672. Boyle, Ess. Gems, 159. Particles which … I observ’d to be of a Vitriolate nature.
2. Treated with vitriol. Vitriolate tartar (see VITRIOLATED 3 a).
1665. Needham, Med. Medicinæ, 513. As we see in Tartar Vitriolate.
1671. Salmon, Syn. Med., III. lxxxiv. 730. Vitriolate Tartar taken in Broath,… extract of Hellebore [etc.] … are here good.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., III. 95. I gave him Spring-water corrected with Vitriolate Syrup of Rasberries.
1704. [see TARTAR1 3 b].
1782. Kirwan, in Phil. Trans., LXXIII. 40. The same double decomposition will be produced if, instead of tartar vitriolate, glauber’s salt be used.
3. Affected by, impregnated with, vitriol.
1666. Boyle, Orig. Forms & Qual., 339. This Vitriolate Nitre (if I may so call it).
1670. H. Stubbe, Plus Ultra, 131. It is also … manifest, that there are in the bodies of men … solutions or liquors imbued with sundry salts, as aluminous, acid, and vitriolate, etc.
1684. Boyle, Porousn. Anim. & Solid Bod., II. viii. 125. So that their Texture was spoiled by the saline and vitriolate Corpuscles.
b. Of water, springs, etc.
1666. Phil. Trans., I. 359. That Pool … seems to be of Vitriolate water. Ibid. (1667), II. 469. The Iron, that is said to be turned into Copper, by the Vitriolate Springs at Cremnitz … in Hungary. Ibid. (1670), V. 1043. There are also two Springs of a Vitriolat water, which are affirm’d to turn iron into Copper.
1751. Eng. Gazetteer, s.v. Worton-Lower, A vitriolate ferrugineous spring.
