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Definition of Tartarous
1. a. Containing tartar; consisting of tartar, or partaking of its qualities; tartareous.
2. a. Resembling, or characteristic of, a Tartar; ill-natured; irritable.
Definition of Tartarous
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or derived from tartar. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tartarous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tartarous
Literary usage of Tartarous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1810)
"Experiments on iht tartarous Acid, and particularly on the Acid it affords ...
left a crystallized residuum, which differed too from tartarous acid, Messrs. ..."
2. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1819)
"... or the oxalic or tartarous acids ; or by muriatic acid diluted with five or
six parts of »it but this must be washed off in a mi r, . or two. ..."
3. Retrospect of Philosophical, Mechanical, Chemical, and Agricultural Discoveries (1810)
"On tartarous Acid, and particularly on the Add yielded ly Tartar, ... which could
not be acetic acid, and were certainly not ordinary tartarous acid. ..."
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