† clysterizev.
Obsolete.
transitive.
a. To treat with a clyster.
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 41 Stampe it and pour it down their throats, or els clysterize them with it.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Clysterise, to give a Clyster, to purge or wash, to convey by Clister up into the guts.
b. To inject (a medicine) as a clyster.
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 413 If it [sea-water] be clysterized hot, it allaieth the wrings and grindings of the belly.
1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. 362 The decoction thereof clisterized, serueth greatly for dysenterias.
c. Perhaps: (in general sense of Greek κλύζειν) to wash over, syringe (quot. 1543).
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1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. iv. f. 154/1 To take the same decoction..and to clysterize the sore place therewith.
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