v. [f. ATOM + -IZE.]
† 1. intr. To hold the doctrines of the atomic philosophy. Obs.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. i. § 26. Other ancient Atomists did Atomize as well as he but they did not atheize.
2. trans. To reduce to atoms, or to an atom; to belittle.
1845. Mozley, Blanco White, Ess. 1878, II. 130. Strange and melancholy is the idea that atomises truth.
