acetous
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The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
In the doorway, looking a shade more acetous than usual, stood Lady Margaret.
From A Forgotten Hero Not for Him by Emily Sarah Holt
A man unfit for Revolutions? whose small soul, transparent wholesome-looking as small-ale, could by no chance ferment into virulent alegar,—the mother of ever-new alegar;—till all France were grown acetous virulent?
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
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 Sir Adolphus William Ward
The principal of the vegetable acids are the acetous and the tartareous.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Joseph Priestley
