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a1797 E. Burke Fourth Let. Peace Regicide Directory France in Writings & Speeches (1991) IX. 52 Regicide neutralizes all the acrimony of that power, and renders it safe and social.

1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. vii. 60 It is obvious that these effects will neutralise each other, so that the body, on which they are supposed to operate, will retain its situation.

1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 11 The very nature of our academic institutions..neutralizes a taste for the productions of native genius.

1875 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Musical Form ii. 18 Thus one irregularity of construction in this case neutralises the effect of the other.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 527/1 The use of alcohol as an aid to digestion is without the support of clinical or laboratory experience, the beneficial action being at least neutralized by undesirable effects produced elsewhere.

1952 P. Bowles Let it come Down i. ii. 24 He did not evoke pity in her—rather, a slight rancour which neutralized her other emotions.

1978 R. V. Jones Most Secret War (1979) I. xi. 147 Eckersley's evidence had neutralized itself, because he had said one thing a few months before and now something quite different.

1991 A. J. Pollard Richard III (1997) vi. 158 Richard's conduct of foreign policy after November 1483 was constrained and dominated by the need to neutralize the threat from Henry Tudor.

1937 Times 16 Apr. 8/6 A mechanized advance-guard battery was shown going into action in support of attacking infantry and attempting to neutralize an area.

1970 J. G. Lowenstein & R. M. Moose Vietnam: December 1969 (U.S. Senate Comm. on Foreign Relations) 4 The Phoenix program had resulted in some 15,000 VCI, meaning Vietcong infrastructure, or cadre, being ‘neutralized’ in 1968.

1972 F. Fitzgerald Fire in Lake xvi. 412 In 1969 the United States set a goal for the Phoenix program to ‘neutralize’ twenty thousand NFL agents during the year.

1983 ‘J. le Carré’ Little Drummer Girl ii. xxiii. 366 ‘If you were me..what would you do with him?’ ‘Neutralise him.’ ‘Shoot him?’ ‘That's your business.’

1996 Nieman Reports Spring 3 Editors who sense of accuracy and honesty is outraged by military use of ‘neutralize’ for kill routinely print stories about ‘layoffs’ to refer to workers who have been fired.

1744 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 43 8 One might hope to neutralize or destroy such a Superabundancy of volatile alkaline Salts, by the prudent Use of this fine volatile Acid; which is capable of being mixed with Water, Julaps, and most Sorts of Drinks.

1760 Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 51 I neutralized Spanish White, by fermenting it with vinegar.

1816 M. Faraday Exper. Res. i. 2 The solution was..neutralized by sulphuric acid, and precipitated.

1841 W. T. Brande Man. Chem. (ed. 5) 639 The alkali in the basin is now to be neutralized with the acid in the tube.

1911 W. H. Simmons & C. A. Mitchell Edible Fats & Oils iii. 26 In this process of refining not only are the albuminous and resinous matters precipitated, but the free fatty acids in the oil are neutralized.

1984 J. F. Lamb et al. Essent. Physiol. (ed. 2) vi. 156 If the chyme is acid then secretion is rich in bicarbonate which neutralises the acid.

1993 Outdoor Canada Mar. 14/3 In 1989, the ministry dumped lime into Whirligig Lake to neutralise its acidity.

1814 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 481 The flame..of oil or of wax must be considered as consisting chiefly of these bodies in a state of vapour; and as their natural electricity is positive,..when they are applied to a negative pole, their inherent positive electricity will neutralize that of the battery to which they are united.

1837 D. Brewster Treat. Magnetism 122 If we carry the needle, when perfectly neutralized, round the sphere.

1860 G. B. Prescott Electr. Telegr. 16 The contrary electricities may be neutralized..by means of an insulated conductor.

1889 G. M. Hopkins Exper. Sci. (1893) xvii. 360 When the pith ball touches the glass rod, its former charge of electricity becomes neutralized, and it receives a charge by conduction which is like that of the glass rod.

1924 A. J. Allmand & H. J. T. Ellingham Princ. Appl. Electrochem. (ed. 2) xix. 416 The H· ions formed will migrate cathodewards, and will be neutralised by the OH′ ions entering the anolyte.

1974 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 13) II. lx. 1411/2 In the plasma the anions to be neutralized are mainly those of strong, nonvolatile acids.

1986 Professional Photogr. Oct. 18/1 The treated air, which contains both positive and negative ions, therefore neutralises any electrostatic charge which may be on a film as it is passed between the ionising bars.

1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 9 484 The vaccine virus must act in one or other of these two ways: either it must destroy the germe of the small-pox..or it must neutralize this germe.

1865 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 11 44 The poison inducing certain forms of fever cannot be neutralized by restraining or accelerating the circulation.

1892 Pop. Sci. Monthly Sept. 633 It neutralizes the potent toxalbumin of tetanus in test-tube cultures.

1902 Science 665/1 This Ehrlich regards as the antitoxin, which is capable of neutralizing the particular toxin to which it owes its origin.

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) ix. 182 Such antisera are usually standardised, so that one unit of antitoxin theoretically neutralises 100 M.L.D. of toxin.

1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 11 Jan. 90/2 Interferon does not neutralize virus but interferes with subsequent cycles of virus production by other cells.

1976 Nature 20 May 259/2 Rattlesnake venoms are neutralised also when premixed in vitro with either rattlesnake plasma or commercial antivenin.

1993 Sci. Amer. July 86/3 Although this [antibody] fragment alone will neutralize a lot of viruses, we don't know how it works.

1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 Sept. 21/2 His lab had accomplished the feat with human cells by inserting into them..a gene whose product neutralizes the function of tumor suppressor proteins.

1902 H. L. Taylor & W. S. Baxter Key to Sight Testing xxxvi. 243 A deep convex, if it could be made infinitely thin, would practically neutralize a concave of the same power.

1962 L. S. Sasieni Princ. & Pract. Optical Dispensing xv. 354 When plastic lenses have to be neutralized, the trial lenses should on no account be allowed to touch the outer surface.

1974 M. Jalie & L. Wray Pract. Ophthalmic Lenses 8 It may be necessary for unknown lenses of high focal power to be neutralized by a combination of two neutralizing lenses.

1997 Optometry & Vision Sci. 74 20 By optically neutralizing the cornea, the contact lenses also had two other important effects: (1) a reduction in refractive astigmatism to almost negligible levels, and (2) a reduction in accommodative gain.

1924 J. A. Moyer & J. F. Wostrel Pract. Radio viii. 123 The adjustment of each neutralizing capacity is made by tuning to the radio current of some transmitting station, turning out the filament of the vacuum tube to be neutralized..and adjusting the capacity until all the sounds in the telephone receiver disappear.

1948 A. L. Albert Radio Fund. ix. 367 Triodes used in radio-frequency amplifiers must be neutralized, otherwise feedback from the plate to the grid through the interelectrode capacitance may cause oscillations.

1968 H. A. Romanowitz & R. E. Puckett Introd. to Electronics x. 410 Push-pull circuits operating at high frequencies..may be neutralized by a criss-cross connection of two capacitors, one from each tube plate, to the end of the input parallel circuit that is connected to the grid of the other tube.

1986 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 83 5762/2 Should there be difficulties with wild oscillations, the interelectrode capacity may be neutralized or, even better, a heterodyne scheme may be incorporated into the feedback loop.