a. [f. ALCOHOL + -IC.]

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  1.  Of or belonging to alcohol.

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1790.  Kerr, trans. Lavoisier’s Chem., 51. The combination of alkohol with caloric, becomes alkoholic gas.

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1800.  Howard, in Phil. Trans., XC. 217. The alcoholic liquor was likewise evaporated to a dry salt.

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1809.  Nicholson, in Brit. Encycl., V. II. xvi. In making alcoholic tinctures.

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1836.  C. Redding, Mod. Wines, xv. (ed. 2), 326. Some ingenious observations … upon the alcoholic principle in wine. Ibid., App. xxviii. 411. The mean alcoholic strength of wines.

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1845.  Penny Cycl., Supp. I. 73/1. A moderate use of alcoholic drinks.

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1871.  Tyndall, Fragm. Sc. (ed. 6), II. xii. 260. The true alcoholic fermentation.

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1882.  Med. Temp. Jrnl., No. 50. 77. Symptoms of chronic alcoholic poisoning.

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  2.  Preserved in alcohol.

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1852.  Dana, Crustacea, I. 185. The specimen, an alcoholic one, has a pale brown colour.

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  3.  Using or employing alcohol.

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1856.  Kane, Arct. Explor., II. 405. The differences which alcoholic thermometers exhibit.

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  B.  sb. pl. Alcoholics = alcoholic liquors.

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