Also 9 æther-. [f. next + -ATION.] a. The administration of ether as an anæsthetic or narcotic; also fig. b. The proces of becoming, or condition of being, etherized.
1851. H. Mayo, Pop. Superstit. (ed. 2), 138. A sketch … of the phenomena of etherisation.
1873. Lowell, Among my Bks., Ser. II. 117. The etherization of excitement and the magnetism of crowds.
1875. H. C. Wood, Therap. (1879), 274. Chloral administered shortly before etherization.
1884. W. S. Lilly, Anc. Relig. & Mod. Thought, 318. The phenomena of ætherisation are certainly very curious.
