† passulateadj.
Obsolete. rare.
Flavoured with or containing raisins.
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passulate?c1425
squillitic1526
scillitic1562
rhabarbarate1696
?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 518 (MED) Vynegre squylletyk or passulate [L. passulato].
1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Passulatus, applied to certain medicines of which raisins formed the chief ingredient: passulate.
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† passulatev.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To dry (grapes) into raisins.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > pickle or preserve [verb (transitive)] > dry > dry grapes
passulate1873
1873 J. L. W. Thudichum Cantor Lect. Wines 20/1 Grapes which had been strongly passulated in the sun.
1874 Amer. Cycl. IX. 468/2 To these may be added the verdea, or green wine, so called from its color, produced at Arcetri, near Florence, and the Trebbiano, described as a ‘gold-colored sirup, made from grapes passulated on the vine by torsion of the stalk.’
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passulation1884
1884 J. L. W. Thudichum Alcoholic Drinks 14 These grapes..have the peculiar faculty of becoming very sweet without passulation, or shrivelling to raisins.
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