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▪ I. † ˈsulphurate, a. Obs. rare.
[ad. late L. sulphurātus, f. sulphur: see -ate2. Cf. It. solforato.]
Made or consisting of, or resembling, sulphur; containing sulphurous gases.
1660H. More Myst. Godl. v. xvi. 189 A pale sulphurate colour. 1662Charleton Myst. Vintners (1675) 182 A fresh Cask, newly fumed with a Sulphurate Match. 1666W. Boghurst Loimogr. (1894) 28 Taking..strong waters, sulphurate, and Plague waters.
▪ II. sulphurate, v. rare.|ˈsʌlfjʊəreɪt|
[f. sulphur + -ate3, or back-formation from next.]
trans. To combine with, or convert into, sulphur; to impregnate with, or subject to the action of, sulphur.
1757tr. Henckel's Pyritologia xiii. 248 When I would try to make ores from metals..I am obliged to use metallic earths, or formal metals, also real sulphur and arsenic, in order either to arsenicate, or sulphurate the former. 1852Burn Naval & Milit. Dict. ii. (1863) 277/1 Sulphurate, soufrer, ensoufrer; convertir en sulfure. |