the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Alcohol
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) An impalpable powder.
(2):
(n.) The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation.
(3):
(n.) Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.
(4):
(n.) A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol (C2H5.OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil, etc.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Alcohol'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/a/alcohol.html. 1828.
