Word Meanings - ACIDULATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make sour or acid in a moderate degree; to sour somewhat. Arbuthnot.

SOMEWHAT
1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
MODERATELY
In a moderate manner or degree; to a moderate extent. Each nymph but moderately fair. Waller.
DEGREE
A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree. In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third
MODERATENESS
The quality or state of being moderate; temperateness; moderation.
MODERATE
Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained; as: Limited in quantity; sparing; temperate; frugal; as, moderate in eating or drinking; a moderate table. Limited in degree
IMMODERATENESS
The quality of being immoderate; excess; extravagance. Puller.
IMMODERATELY
In an immoderate manner; excessively.
IMMODERATE
Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable bounds; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands; immoderate grief; immoderate laughter. So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint. Shak. Syn. -- Excessive;