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gallize

Syllables: gall·ize/ˈɡælaɪz/

gallize verb: to add sugar and water to (unfermented grape juice) so as to increase the quantity of wine produced.

gallize: to add sugar and water to (unfermented grape juice) so as to increase the quantity of wine produced
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Verb

gallize (third-person singular simple present gallizes, present participle gallizing, simple past and past participle gallized)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US, dated, transitive) To add sugar and water to (unfermented grape juice) so as to increase the quantity of wine produced.
    • [page 163] Therefore it is, that to us the knowledge of how to properly gallize our wines is still more important than to the European vintner, and the results which we can realize are yet more important. [...] [page 172] Truth and justice need never fear the light—they can only gain additional...1866, George Husmann, “Wine-making”, in The Cultivation of the Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines, New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] E. Woodward, […], →OCLC, pages 163 and 172
    • The demand for native wines has diminished of late considerably, and their sale rendered difficult; and, although other causes may, in part, account for this, one of them, not to be overlooked, will be found in the prejudice which has been created against them by the public discussion of the...1867 January 8, “[Proceedings of the Missouri Horticultural Society.] Observations in Theodore Engelmann’s Vineyard, St. Clair County, Illinois, 1866.”, in Second Annual Report of the Missouri State...

Examples of gallize in a sentence

  • I do not even attempt to sell a cask of gallized wine, before the purchaser is made fully acquainted with the fact, that it has been gallized.1866, George Husmann, “Wine-making”, in The Cultivation of the Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines, New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] E....
  • It is deficient in sugar, and the juice is usually gallized, fortified by the addition of alcohol, or otherwise manipulated.1870, “Report of the Superintendent of Gardens and Grounds”, in Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Year 1869, Washington...
  • At the South Carolina State Fair, held at Columbia, wines were exhibited from other grapes made by the same process, with this difference—that some of them were not Gallized, and no sugar added.1871 February, R. D’Hereuse, “D’Hereuse’s Patent Air Treatment”, in W[illia]m and W. L. Jones, editors, Southern Cultivator: A Practical...
  • All wine, Moselle and Necktar wines—in fact, all German wines shipped to America—are gallized, and exactly this circumstance has created a very important market in America for these wines.1916, J. Beyse, “K. A. Hellenthal’s Manual for Wine Growers and Wine Dealers, or The Perfect Wine Cellar Master. Eighth Improved and...

Forms of gallize

third-person singular presentgallizes
present participlegallizing
past participlegallized
pastgallized
alternative formgallise

Origin of gallize

From German Gall + English -ize (suffix forming verbs from adjectives or nouns with the sense of doing what the adjective or noun denotes), from the surname of Dr. Ludwig Gall (1791–1863), the German inventor who developed the process.

Words formed from gallize

Questions about gallize

What does gallize mean?
Gallize means to add sugar and water to (unfermented grape juice) so as to increase the quantity of wine produced.
How do you use gallize in a sentence?
I do not even attempt to sell a cask of gallized wine, before the purchaser is made fully acquainted with the fact, that it has been gallized.
What part of speech is gallize?
Gallize is a verb.
How do you pronounce gallize?
Gallize is pronounced /ˈɡælaɪz/ (UK).
What is the past tense of gallize?
The past tense of gallize is gallized.

Words near gallize in the dictionary

  1. gallivorous
  2. galliware
  3. galliwasp
  4. galliwasps
  5. gallization
  6. gallize
  7. gallized
  8. gallizes
  9. gallizing
  10. gallless
  11. Gallman

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