edulcorate

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  1. To remove acidity from; sweeten. Succory, a little edulcorated with sugar and vinegar, is by some eaten in the summer, and more grateful to the stomach than the palate. Evelyn, Acetaria.
  2. In chem., to free from acids, salts, or impurities by washing. The copious powder that results from their union is, by that union of volatile parts, so far fixed that, after they have edulcorated it with water, they prescribe the calcining of it in a crucible for five or six hours. Boyle, Works, IV. 311.

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  1. from Latin as if *edulcoratus, past participle of *edulcorare (later F. édulcorer = Portuguese edulcorar, sweeten), from e, out, + Late Latin dulcorare, sweeten: see dulcorate.
 

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