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hyperoxygenate, v.|-ˈɒksɪdʒɪneɪt|
[f. hyper- 4 + oxygenate.]
trans. To impregnate or combine with an excess of oxygen; to supersaturate with oxygen. (Chiefly in pa. pple.)
1793Beddoes Calculus 223 By surcharging the blood with oxygene, by hyper-oxygenating it, if I may use the expression. Ibid. 264 An hyper-oxygenated atmosphere. 1803Ann. Rev. I. 377/1 All those alkaline and earthy salts..are shown..to be hyperoxygenated muriates. 1855Mayne Expos. Lex., Hyperoxygenatus,..hyperoxygenated.
b. (humorous nonce-use, with allusion to Gr. ὀξύς sharp, acid.) To impart excess of sourness to.
c1811Southey Let. to J. Murray in Smiles Mem. J. Murray (1891) I. 198 An old huckstering grocer..whose natural sourness..is hyperoxygenated by Methodism.
So hyperoxygeˈnation, the action of hyperoxygenating or condition of being hyperoxygenated; hypeˈroxygenize v. trans. = hyperoxygenate (chiefly in pa. pple.).
1793E. Darwin in Beddoes Lett. 61 Your..reasonings..indicate.. hyperoxygenation to be the cause of this fatal disease [consumption]. 1802Chenevix in Phil. Trans. XCII. 126 Oxygenized and hyperoxygenized muriatic acids. 1811Edin. Rev. XVII. 407 The acid supposed to be hyperoxygenized. 1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 278 Dr. Colton..maintains the absurdity that nitrous oxide produces hyperoxygenation of the blood. |