Obs. [f. after CAUTERIZE: see -ISM.] The application of cautery.
1640. E. Chilmead, trans. Ferrand’s Love Melanch., 262 (T.). Some use Cauterismes on the Legs.
1688. H. Wharton, Enthus. Ch. of Rome, 91. For being in a grievous sickness necessitated to admit a Cauterism, he [St. Francis] thus bespeaks the Fire.
