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ˈvolcanized, ppl. a. rare.
[ad. F. volcanisé (Buffon, etc.), f. volcan volcan: see -ize.]
Affected or altered by volcanic action or heat.
1792A. Young Trav. France 286 The French naturalists,..assert the depth to be twenty feet of beds of earth, formed of the ruins of what they style the primitive (granite) and volcanized mountains. 1798tr. Spallanzani's Trav. Sicilies vi. I. 190 So as to form a soil entirely volcanized. Ibid. vii. I. 200 In a volcanized country, where stones of any other than a volcanic nature are not to be found.
Hence ˈvolcanize v. trans. (Cf. vulcanize v.)
1828Webster (citing Spallanzani), and in later Dicts. |