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opalize, v.|ˈəʊpəlaɪz|
[f. opal + -ize.]
1. intr. To exhibit a play of colours like the opal; to opalesce.
1811Pinkerton Petral. I. 580 A coal..in which crimson, green, blue, and yellow, perfectly opalise or interchange; so that the substance has more splendour than even the noble opal.
2. trans. To make iridescent like an opal. Chiefly in ˈopalized ppl. a., converted into opal, made opaline or opalescent.
1811Pinkerton Petral. I. 159 The beautiful opalised kind of felspar, called Labrador stone. 1838T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 99 Either not at all or only very slightly opalized by caustic ammonia. 1842Brande Dict. Sci. etc., Opalized wood, petrified by silica, and acquiring a structure resembling common opal. |