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单词 cauterize
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cauterizev.

Brit. /ˈkɔːtərʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈkɔdəˌraɪz/, /ˈkɑdəˌraɪz/
Forms: Also cauterise.
Etymology: = French cautériser, < late Latin cautērizāre to burn or brand with a hot iron, < cautērium, < Greek καυτήριον branding-iron.
1.
a. Medicine. transitive. To burn or sear with a hot iron or a caustic.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > cauterizing > cauterize [verb (transitive)]
brandc1440
sear1482
burn1483
cauterize?1541
cauterizate1576
to sear up1602
singe1627
the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by topical applications > treat by topical applications [verb (transitive)] > treat with corrosive or caustic
corsie1574
corrosive1581
cauterize1800
caustic1852
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iv. sig. Qj After that they be cauterised ye must apply on the sayd places oyle of Roses.
1624 P. Massinger Bond-man i. iii. sig. C2v Old festred sores Must be lanc'd to the quicke and cauteriz'd.
1735 W. Somervile Chace iv. 283.
1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. II. 340 The acetic acid..is..so caustic, that it corrodes and cauterizes the skin.
1865 Public Opinion 28 Jan. 96 The boy's wound was cauterized and he is doing well.
figurative.1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. II. 222/2 The unsoundness of doctrine is not cut off or cauterised.1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. II. 39 To suppose that he could cauterize out heresy.
b. absol.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > cauterizing > cauterize [verb (intransitive)]
cauterize1563
1563 T. Gale Certaine Wks. Chirurg. iv. ii. f. 77 Thys water..wyl cauterise like an whote yron.
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) IV. 82 Whether he cauterise or foment,..he is the same Physitian.
2. To brand with a hot iron. Obsolete.
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society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > be distinctive mark on [verb (transitive)] > put identifying mark on > burn flesh with a hot iron
brandc1440
seara1529
cauterize1591
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Cauterizado Marked with a hot yron, or cauterised.
a1677 J. Taylor Contempl. State Man (1684) ii. vi. 241 Fugitive Slaves are marked and cauterized with burning Irons.
figurative.1609 S. Daniel Civile Wares (rev. ed.) viii. lxxxiii. 224 Now he must Bring home his reputation Cauteris'd With th' idle marke of seruing others lust.1619 J. Taylor Kicksey Winsey sig. A7 I will Satyrize, Cauterize, and Stigmatize all the whole kennell of curres.
3. figurative. To ‘sear’, deaden, render insensible (the conscience, feelings, etc.). In allusion to 1 Timothy iv. 2 κεκαυτηριασμένων τὴν ἰδίαν συνείδησιν ‘having their conscience seared with a hot iron’.
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > make emotionally unfeeling [verb (transitive)] > make hard or callous
hardc1325
hardenc1350
engrege1382
endurec1384
indurec1450
indurate1538
obduratea1540
brawn1571
hard heart1581
sear1582
cauterize1587
myrmidonize1593
obdure1598
Gorgonize1609
stonea1616
petrifya1631
petrificate1647
roborate1652
case-harden1687
ossify1803
hard-boil1929
1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 117/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II His conscience was so cauterised.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 93 Hypocrites; which are euer Handling Holy Things, but without Feeling. So as they must needs be cauterized in the End.
1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 141 When once conscience is by frequent repetition of sins, cauterised, dispirited, and made senselesse.
1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. II. xxxix. 162 Custom soon cauterizes human sympathy.
1874 E. B. Pusey Lenten Serm. 139 The true conscience, untill it is cauterised, will..rebel against the false.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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