Alcoholization: Definition and part of speech

Alcoholization

n. Saturation with alcohol; putting the animal system under the influence of alcoholic liquor.
n. The act of reducing a substance to a fine or impalpable powder.
n. The act rectifying spirit.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

n. A diseased condition of the system, brought about by the continued use of alcoholic liquors.

n. Alcoholic liquors.
a. Of or pertaining to alcohol, or partaking of its qualities; derived from, or caused by, alcohol; containing alcohol; as, alcoholic mixtures; alcoholic gastritis; alcoholic odor.
n. A person given to the use of alcoholic liquors.

n. A crystallizable compound of a salt with alcohol, in which the latter plays a part analogous to that of water of crystallization.

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.
n. An impalpable powder.
n. The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation.
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.