alcohol ate

[Eng. alcohol; -ate.] Chem.: A name given to definite crystalline compounds, in which alcohol acts like water of crystallization thus, ZnCl, crystallizes with two molecules of ethyl alcohol, forming ZnCl2(CHO). The following are also known: CaCl2.4(CoH6O) and Mg(NO3)2.6(CHO). (See Watts' Dict. Chem .) Crystalline substances containing methyl alcohol, ., are also known. al-co-hol-ic, a. & s . [Eng. alcohol ; -ic. In Fr. alcool i que .] 1. As adjective : Pertaining to alcohol; containing alcohol in greater or le er amount; resembling alcohol. and which emitted a strong alcoholic odour." -Cycl. Pract. Med., 1. 452. 2. As substantive: One who immoderately partakes of alcoholic liquors. "In the chronic alcoholic we have a greater or le transformation of the individual -Brit, and For. Medico- Chirurgical Review , vol. lx. (1877), p. 368.