Also 8 electerize. [f. ELECTR-IC + -IZE; cf. Fr. électriser.]
trans. To charge with electricity; to subject to the action of electricity; = ELECTRIFY.
1746. Browning, in Phil. Trans., XLIV. 373. I was desirous to electrise a Tree.
1747. Franklin, Lett., Wks. 1840, V. 187. We electrize a person twenty or more times running, with a touch of the finger on the wire.
1748. Lond. Mag., 255. All animal bodies … being constantly electeriz’d … by the earth.
1808. J. Webster, Nat. Phil., 141. The prime conductor is electrized with the negative.
1869. Mrs. Somerville, Molec. Sc., I. I. ii. 90. A spiral wire electrized by the great battery … at the London Institution.
Hence Electrized ppl. a.
1753. Watson, in Phil. Trans., XLVIII. 207. An electrised phial of water.
1757. E. Darwin, ibid. L. 252. Electrised down of the juncus bombycinus.
1837. Whewell, Hist. Induct. Sc. (1857), III. 13. Decanting the water out of an electrized into another bottle.
