acidulatedadj.
/əˈsɪdjᵿleɪtᵻd/, /əˈsɪdʒᵿleɪtᵻd/, U.S. /əˈsɪdʒəˌleɪdᵻd/ Made slightly acidic or sour; flavoured with acid. Also figurative.
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1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 54 If this acidulated water find a salsuginous glebe, it becomes coagulated.
1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet i. 245 Likewise all acidulated and chalybeat Waters.
1790 W. Nicholson tr. A.-F. de Fourcroy Elements Nat. Hist. & Chem. (new ed.) III. xxiii. 116 This substance..affords, in the retort, a few drops of an acidulated liquor.
1837 D. Brewster Treat. Magnetism 156 Two ends of the wire were plunged in slightly acidulated water.
1853 A. Soyer Pantropheon 122 The pomegranate, whose acidulated flavour is so pleasing to the inhabitants of hot climates.
1880 H. J. Byron Our Boys ii. 26 I'll become supremely selfish and settle down into a narrow-minded and highly acidulated old maid.
1925 J. Drinkwater Robert Burns iii. 42 The Reverend Mr. Robertson, a pedantic and acidulated clergyman.
1998 N. Lawson How to Eat (1999) 366 Submerge the quinces in the acidulated water.
Compounds
acidulated drop n. now rare = acid drop n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > acid sweets
sour-sweet1603
acid drop1783
acidulated drop1827
acidulated tablet1889
acid tablet1893
sour-ball1900
nippy sweetie1994
1827 Times 7 July 1/2 (advt.) Knight's acidulated drops.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 305 Ma, in the openness of her heart, offered the governess an acidulated drop.
1906 Daily Chron. 1 Oct. 6/5 He was not an ‘acidulated drop curate’.
1998 N. Whittaker Sweet Talk (1999) 20 To use the trade's own precise terminology, acidulated drops.
acidulated tablet n. now rare a sharp-tasting lozenge or sweet, an acid drop; cf. acid tablet n. at acid adj. and n. Compounds 1c.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > acid sweets
sour-sweet1603
acid drop1783
acidulated drop1827
acidulated tablet1889
acid tablet1893
sour-ball1900
nippy sweetie1994
1795 Times 8 June 1/3 (advt.) For sore throats... The acidulated tablet.
1889 Pract. Confectioner 1 May 4/1 Acidulated raspberry tablets.
1969 A. Barlow Seventh Child i. 13 There was an amazing variety [of sweets] to be had and it was difficult to decide between one ounce of ‘acidulated tablets’ at a half-penny, sugar mice with pink eyes..and bars of chocolate cream.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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