saponaceousadj.

1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 109 A Saponaceous Draught.

1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments i. 6 The Gall..is a saponaceous Substance, being compos'd of an Alkaline Salt, Oil, and Water, all which can be extracted from it.

1749 Philos. Trans. 1748 (Royal Soc.) 45 553 These..made a kind of Soap, or sulphureous saponaceous Salt, resembling Soap of Tartar.

1757 J. Dyer Fleece i. 7 Rich saponaceous loam, that slowly drinks The black'ning show'r.

1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere III. iii. viii. 634 It was..saponaceous to the touch, and almost as heavy as white lead.

1806 W. Henry Epitome Chem. (ed. 4) i. xix. 282 Caustic fixed alkalies convert it [sc. wax] into a saponaceous compound.

1814 H. M. Brackenridge Views Louisiana ii. iii. 105 A kind of clay, of a dirty yellow, and of a saponaceous appearance.

1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. vi. 81 Some portions of which [sc. shale] have a saponaceous feel.

1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. xiii. 553 A saponaceous tooth powder should be used.

1837 S. Smith Let. to Singleton in Wks. (1859) II. 294/1 Among all his pecuniary, saponaceous, oleaginous parishioners.

1860 G. A. Sala Baddington Peerage I. xi. 192 Then did the uncertain chase after the pig with the saponaceous tail take place.

1864 Ld. Westbury in Daily Tel. 16 July This so-called synodical judgment was, no doubt, a well-lubricated form of words, but it was so oily, so saponaceous, that no one could grasp it.