单词 | mercurialize |
释义 | mercurializev. Now rare. a. intransitive. To behave in a mercurial manner. Also transitive with it. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Mercurializer, to mercurialize it; to be humorous, fantasticall, new-fangled. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Mercurialize, to be humorous or phantastical, to be light footed; to prattle or babble; Also to be eloquent. b. transitive. To render mercurial in character. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1835 N. Amer. Rev. July 235 The civilized world was thoroughly mercurialized, saturated, with the spirit of this volatile, importunate, restless, audacious, all-daring and all-accomplishing people. 1862 Temple Bar 6 195 A variety of amusements which..mercurialise the race that delights in them. 2. transitive. Medicine. To treat with a mercurial preparation. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by medicine or drug > treat with drugs [verb (transitive)] > treat with specific drugs or medicines tartar1647 blue-pill1824 mercurialize1825 opium1825 treacle1839 tartar-emeticize1844 quinine1858 quininize1860 cinchonize1863 veratrize1891 oxalate1894 tuberculinize1897 citrate1903 strychninize1934 juice1973 1825 Lancet 12 Feb. 162/2 The object in giving mercury in the syphilitic lesions is to mercurialize the system. 1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. viii. 96 You may have fully mercurialized your patient. 1880 M. Mackenzie Man. Dis. Throat & Nose I. 35 Those who have..been mercurialised are very subject to the affection [of pharyngeal catarrh]. 1995 Jrnl. Amer. Holistic Veterinary Med. Assoc. (Nexis) 31 Jan. 26 A time of manslaughter charges against doctors who wouldn't mercurialize, or bleed their patients. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > treatment of plates, films, or paper > [verb (transitive)] mercurialize1843 actinize1844 albumenize1850 sensitize1851 wax1853 develop1859 sensibilize1860 organify1873 back1878 salt1878 excite1879 talc1888 alum1889 bleach1889 fume1890 orthochromatize1890 flash1903 pre-expose1925 hypersensitize1954 panchromatize1960 1843 W. H. T. Photogr. Manip. 27 Mercurializing the Plate. 1856 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. II. 1144 The plate is then exposed in the camera, after which it is mercurialized. 1859 S. N. Carvatho Incidents of Travel Far West ii. 20 Buffing and coating plates, and mercurializing them,..seemed to our city friends one of the impossibilities. Derivatives merˈcurialized adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > treatment of plates, films, or paper > [adjective] mercurialized1648 ferro-prussiate1815 sensitive1839 albumen1850 sensitized1851 bromized1853 waxed1853 salted1855 collodionized1859 collodioned1870 colour-sensitive1879 colour-sensitized1888 unsensitized1889 fumed1890 silvered1890 unfumed1891 orthochromatized1902 backed1906 hypersensitized1914 hypersensitive1937 the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by medicine or drug > [adjective] > treated with specific drugs citrated1757 oxalated1893 mercurialized1897 insulinized1928 strychninized1938 heparinized1940 reserpinized1955 1648 ‘Mercurio-Mastix Hibernicus’ Muzzle for Cerberus 3 The plannet Mercury is said to be good with the good, and bad with the bad, like our Mercurialized newters, Disciples with Disciples, and Traytors with Pharisees. 1823 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 113 406 By others..it was considered to have arisen from inhaling the mercurialized atmosphere. 1852 Sci. Amer. 23 Oct. 46 I have not been able to produce colors on the mercurialized plate. 1854 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Mar. 275 The milk [of the mururé]..is reported to possess extraordinary virtue in the cure of mercurialized patients. 1886 Science 21 May 462/2 A sufficiently thick..layer of mercurialized soil. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 933 Men are said to have become mercurialised by volatilisation of the metal. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 432 A dark mercurialised face appears. merˈcurializing n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > treatment of plates, films, or paper > [noun] mercurializing1841 mercurialization1843 albumenizing1851 sensitizing1851 sensibilization1855 sensitization1857 albuminization1868 fuming1889 aluming1896 orthochromatizing1903 lenticulation1916 hypersensitizing1920 panchromatizing1922 hypersensitization1933 pre-exposure1937 latensification1940 1841 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 40 138 A..mercurializing apparatus. 1868 M. C. Lea Man. Photogr. 138 When a very decided increase [in density] is needed, chlorizing, iodizing, or mercurializing..may be resorted to. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1611 |
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