Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of rectifying spirit till it is wholly deprived of impurities.
- noun Saturation with alcohol, or exposure to its action.
- noun The act of reducing a substance to an impalpable powder.
- noun Same as
alcoholism . - noun Also spelled
alcoholisation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The act of reducing a substance to a fine or impalpable powder.
- noun The act rectifying spirit.
- noun Saturation with alcohol; putting the animal system under the influence of alcoholic liquor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
reduction topowder - noun
saturation withalcohol - noun
subjection to theinfluence of alcoholicspirits
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Examples
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The possible racial effect of alcoholization is, in short, a much more complicated problem than it appears at first sight to be.
Applied Eugenics Paul Popenoe 1933
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Philosophically speaking, I think self-narcotization and self-alcoholization are rather ignoble substitutes for undisturbed self-consciousness and unfettered self-control.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Philosophically speaking, I think self-narcotization and self-alcoholization are rather ignoble substitutes for undisturbed self-consciousness and unfettered self-control.
Over the Teacups Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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After comparing the gambling business to the "alcoholization of the people," Putin in October 2006 personally submitted to top lawmakers in the Duma his bill relocating gambling facilities to special zones.
The St. Petersburg Times By Tatyana Romanova 2010
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This is the actual recipe taken from our brewing logs, but brewed to its full strength, without the de-alcoholization process that it would have had to have gone through during prohibition.
MNBeer - Beer from the Twin Cities, Minnesota, Minneapolis, St. Paul and beyond 2009
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Clark Smith's contention that the tools of micro-oxygenation and de-alcoholization, provided by his company,
The Pour 2009
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But everybody has seen in this redoubling of severity the interest of the treasury much more than that of the consumer; the Chamber did not dare to create a whole army of wine-tasters, inspectors, etc., to watch for fraud and identify it, and thus load the budget with a few extra millions; in prohibiting watering and alcoholization, the only means left to the merchant-manufacturers of putting wine within the reach of all and realizing profits, it did not succeed in increasing the market by a decrease in production.
System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888
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"In a second set the vaccination and alcoholization were carried on simultaneously, a fatal dose (as proved by control experiment) of rabic cord was then injected, when it was found that little or no immunity had been acquired.
Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890
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