[f. prec.: cf. F. carbonater.]
1. trans. To burn to carbon, char, CARBONIZE.
1831. Fraser’s Mag., III. 744. Witches … were carbonated in the fire because they unreasonably resisted drowning in the millrace.
2. Chem. To form into a carbonate. b. To impregnate with carbonic acid gas, to aërate.
1805. W. Saunders, Min. Waters, 237. Caustic alkali … becoming itself carbonated by means of the water.
1853. W. Gregory, Inorg. Chem., 279. The slow action of air, moisture, and the vapour of acetic acid on thin sheets of lead, by which the metal is oxidised and carbonated.
