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cauterize, v.|ˈkɔːtəraɪz|
Also -ise.
[= F. cautériser, ad. late L. cautērizāre to burn or brand with a hot iron, f. cautērium, ad. Gr. καυτήριον branding-iron.]
1. Med. trans. To burn or sear with a hot iron or a caustic.
1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg., After that they be cauterised ye must apply on the sayd places oyle of Roses. 1623Massinger Bondman i. iii, Old festered sores Must be lanced to the quick, and cauterized. 1735Somerville Chase iv. 283. 1800 tr. Lagrange's Chem. II. 340 The acetic acid..is..so caustic, that it corrodes and cauterizes the skin. 1865Public Opinion 28 Jan. 96 The boy's wound was cauterized and he is doing well.
fig.1824–9Landor Imag. Conv. (1846) II. 222 The unsoundness of doctrine is not cut off or cauterised. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. II. 39 To suppose that he could cauterize out heresy.
b. absol.
1563T. Gale Antidot. ii. 77 Thys water..wyl cauterise like an whote yron. a1631Donne Serm. xxvi. 263 Whether he cauterize or foment, he is the same Physitian.
†2. To brand with a hot iron. Obs.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Cauterizado, marked with a hot yron, or cauterised. 1684Contempl. State of Man ii. vi. (1699) 191 Fugitive Slaves are Marked and Cauterized with Burning Irons.
fig.1609Daniel Civ. Warres viii. lxxxiii, Now he must Bring home his Reputation Cauteris'd With th' idle Mark of serving Others Lust. 1619J. Taylor (Water P.) Sco. Baseness Wks. ii. 36, I will Satyrize, cauterize, and stigmatize all the whole kennell of curres.
3. fig. To ‘sear’, deaden, render insensible (the conscience, feelings, etc.). In allusion to 1 Tim. iv. 2 κεκαυτηριασµένων τὴν ἰδίαν συνείδησιν ‘having their conscience seared with a hot iron’.
1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinshed II. 117/1 His conscience was so cauterised. 1625Bacon Ess. Atheism, Hypocrites; which are euer Handling Holy Things, but without Feeling. So as they must needs be cauterized in the End. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iv. 141 When once conscience is by frequent repetition of sins, cauterised, dispirited, and made senselesse. 1807Southey Espriella's Lett. (1814) II. 103 Custom soon cauterizes human sympathy. 1874Pusey Lent. Serm. 139 The true conscience, untill it is cauterised, will..rebel against the false. |