[f. ERGOT sb. + -IZE.] trans. To affect with or transform into ergot.
Hence Ergotized ppl. a.
1860. Gard. Chron., 29 Sept. The formidable consequences of ergotized corn, when eaten.
1875. H. C. Wood, Therap. (1879), 552. When the summer is wet and cold, the rye becomes very extensively ergotized.
1884. Pall Mall Gaz., 12 Sept., 2/1. Some fifteen outbreaks of foot-rot, the result of eating ergotized rye.
