acetous
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This fruit, and the strawberry, are especially suitable for invalids, as they do not engender acetous fermentation in the stomach.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 462 Volume 18, New Series, November 6, 1852 by Chambers, Robert
Everything should be perfectly sweet and clean, and a strict supervision kept up, that the laborers do not drop any crumbs of bread, &c., among the grapes, as this will immediately cause acetous fermentation.
From The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines by Husmann, George
The acetous acid thus concentrated is called radical vinegar.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph
Hence we have a phosphorous and a phosphoric acid, an acetous and an acetic acid; and so on, for others in similar circumstances.
From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Lavoisier, Antoine
For whilst invective of a general kind runs off like water from the rock of usage, even Circumlocution Offices are not insensible to the acetous force of satire.
From Dickens English Men of Letters by Ward, Adolphus William, Sir
