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Word Meanings - VITRIOLIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To convert into a vitriol; to vitriolate.

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  • VITRIOLIC
    Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from, or resembling, vitriol; vitriolous; as, a vitriolic taste. Cf. Vitriol. Vitriolic acid , sulphuric acid. See Vitriol .
  • CONVERTIBILITY
    The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
  • VITRIOLATION
    The act, process, or result of vitriolating.
  • CONVERTIBLY
    In a convertible manner.
  • CONVERTIBLE
    1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. 2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
  • CONVERTEND
    Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the conversae. See Converse, n. .
  • VITRIOLATED
    Changed into a vitriol or a sulphate, or subjected to the action of sulphuric acid or of a sulphate; as, vitriolated potash, i. e., potassium sulphate.
  • VITRIOLIZE
    To convert into a vitriol; to vitriolate.
  • VITRIOLATE
    To convert into, or change to, a vitriol; to make into sulphuric acid or a sulphate. To subject to the action of, or impregnate with, vitriol.
  • CONVERTIBLENESS
    The state of being convertible; convertibility.
  • CONVERTER
    A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal. (more info) 1. One who converts; one who makes converts.
  • VITRIOL
    vitriolo, It. vitriuolo; fr. L. vitreolus of glass, vitreus vitreous. A sulphate of any one of certain metals, as copper, iron, zinc, cobalt. So called on account of the glassy appearance or luster. Sulphuric acid; -- called also oil of vitriol.
  • CONVERT
    To change into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second. 8. To turn into another language; to translate. Which story . . . Catullus more elegantly converted. B. Jonson. Converted guns, cast-iron guns
  • VITRIOLIZABLE
    Capable of being converted into a vitriol.
  • VITRIOLIZATION
    The act of vitriolizing, or the state of being vitriolized; vitriolation.
  • CONVERTITE
    A convert. Shak.
  • VITRIOLOUS
    See VITRIOLIC
  • INCONVERTED
    Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne.
  • RECONVERTIBLE
    Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
  • UNCONVERTED
    1. Not converted or exchanged. 2. Not changed in opinion, or from one faith to another. Specifically: -- Not persuaded of the truth of the Christian religion; heathenish. Hooker. Unregenerate; sinful; impenitent. Baxter.
  • PHASE CONVERTER
    A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency.
  • INCONVERTIBLE
    Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh.
  • INCONVERTIBLENESS
    Inconvertibility.
  • INTERCONVERTIBLE
    Convertible the one into the other; as, coin and bank notes are interconvertible.
  • INCONVERTIBLY
    In an inconvertible manner.
  • RECONVERT
    To convert again. Milton.
  • INCONVERTIBILITY
    The quality or state of being inconvertible; not capable of being exchanged for, or converted into, something else; as, the inconvertibility of an irredeemable currency, or of lead, into gold.

 

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