acidist

[ACID.] One who maintains the doctrine of acids. agreeable to what the acidists would call an alkali."-Dr. Slare: Hist. Roy . Soc., iv. 442. ăç-id-i-ty, s. [In Ger. acid it at ; Fr. acid ité ; Ital. acidita , fr. Lat. acid it as .] The quality of being sour or sharp to the taste; sourne , tartne , sharpne to the taste. and consequently acidity was but an acc i dental quality of some of the these bodies." - Мая Müller : Science of Lang ., 6th ed., ii. 54.