chemicaledadj.
/ˈkɛmᵻkld/, U.S. /ˈkɛmək(ə)ld/ Treated with chemicals; made with or containing chemicals.
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1884 Harper's Mag. Aug. 51 (advt.) Washing Compounds and Soap..are highly chemicaled.
1892 Scribner's Mag. Dec. 154 (advt.) A cake of Ivory Soap will do more work than a cake of the ordinary, poorly made, highly chemicalled soaps.
1922 H. A. Auden Starch & Starch Products ix. 86 Starches for technical purposes are usually classified as (a) thick boiling, or (b) thin boiling. Both groups may be subdivided, the thick boiling varieties into 'chemicalled', in which alkali has been used, and 'unchemicalled', employed mainly in baking powders, etc., and for size in the textile industry.
1997 R. Dunbar-Ortiz Red Dirt viii. 126 Curlers with wires to an electrical contraption bound the chemicaled strands of hair.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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