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‖ aquafortis|ˌeɪkwəˈfɔːtɪs|
[L.; = strong water.]
1. The early scientific, and still the popular, name of the Nitric Acid of commerce (dilute HNO3), a powerful solvent and corrosive.
1601Weever Mirr. Martyrs D j, For inke strong aqua⁓fortis. 1626Bacon Sylva §789 Dissolve the Iron in the Aqua-Fortis. 1762H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) IV. 178 Lord Lovat..etched in aquafortis by William Hogarth. 1878Huxley Physiogr. vi. 86 Nitric acid, the substance known commonly as aquafortis.
†2. Also used of other powerful solvents. Obs.
1607Topsell Four-footed Beasts 308 Wash all his tail with aqua fortis, or strong water, made in this sort: take of green copperas, of allum, of each, one pound,—of white copperas a quartern. 1875Ure Dict. Arts I. 202 Aquafortis did not always mean nitric acid.
3. fig.
1611Middleton & Dek. Roar. Girl Wks. 1873 III. 156 Mony is that Aqua fortis, that eates into many a maiden⁓head. 1670Eachard Contempt Clergy 55 The blotts and blurrs of our sins must be taken out by the aqua-fortis of our tears. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets viii. 256 The sceptical aqua⁓fortis of his age is as strong in Aristophanes as in Euripides. |