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electrize|ɪˈlɛktraɪz| Also 8 electerize. [f. electr-ic + -ize; cf. Fr. électriser.] trans. To charge with electricity; to subject to the action of electricity; = electrify v.
1746Browning in Phil. Trans. XLIV. 373, I was desirous to electrise a Tree. 1747Franklin Lett. Wks. 1840 V. 187 We electrize a person twenty or more times running, with a touch of the finger on the wire. 1748Lond. Mag. 255 All animal bodies..being constantly electeriz'd..by the earth. 1808J. Webster Nat. Phil. 141 The prime conductor is electrized with the negative. 1869M. Somerville Molec. Sc. I. i. ii. 90 A spiral wire electrized by the great battery..at the London Institution. Hence eˈlectrized ppl. a.
1753Watson in Phil. Trans. XLVIII. 207 An electrised phial of water. 1757E. Darwin ibid. L. 252 Electrised down of the juncus bombycinus. 1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. (1857) III. 13 Decanting the water out of an electrized into another bottle. |