Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Ethylate

Ethylate (eth"il*at) , noun

[From Ethyl.]

(Chemistry) A compound derived from ethyl alcohol by the replacement of the hydroxyl hydrogen, after the manner of a hydrate; an ethyl alcoholate; as, potassium ethylate, C2H5.O.K.

Ethylate (eth"il*at) , transitive verb

[From Ethyl.]

(Chemistry) To treat in such a way as to cause the introduction of one or more ethyl groups, C2H5-; as, to ethylate alcohol.