catalysize
English edit
Etymology edit
After the Ancient Greek καταλυσίζω (katalusízō); compare catalyse, analysize, paralysize.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kətăʹlĭsīz, IPA(key): /kəˈtælɪsaɪz/
Verb edit
catalysize (third-person singular simple present catalysizes, present participle catalysizing, simple past and past participle catalysized)
- (transitive, also figurative) Tob accelerate (a process) by catalysis.
- 1946: the United States Congress Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack and the American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas, Pearl Harbor Attack: Hearings Before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, Congress of the United States, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Con. Res. 27, 79th Congress, a Concurrant Resolution Authorizing an Investigation of the Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and Events and Circumstances Relating Thereto, parts 29–30, page 2,781 (Government Printing Office)
- It is vitally necessary to change the leadership and to reorganize, revitalize and catalysize the agencies enjoined or engaged for the work performance.
- 1973, Robert E. Cornish, Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies, Health Research Books, →ISBN, page 105:
- The hemoglobin of the blood carries oxygen but does not directly catalysize oxidation.
- 1983, Edde M. Iji, Prototypes of Antiheroic Propensities in Selected Dramas of Brecht and Soyinka, volume 1, University of Wisconsin-Madison, page 21:
- What may be called ‘The Last Word’ on the thesis encapsulates an attempt to broach on Brecht’s and Soyinka’s dramatic thrusts and the emphases thereof on the culture of humanism as opposed to the culture of narcissism which tends to catalysize man’s inhumanity to man in all its ramifications.
- 1984: IEEE Electron Devices Society, Digest of Technical Papers, volume 2, page ? (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
- Such low cost components in turn will make the realization of cost effective terminals possible and, hopefully, catalysize a large consumer market […]
- 1946: the United States Congress Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack and the American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas, Pearl Harbor Attack: Hearings Before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, Congress of the United States, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Con. Res. 27, 79th Congress, a Concurrant Resolution Authorizing an Investigation of the Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and Events and Circumstances Relating Thereto, parts 29–30, page 2,781 (Government Printing Office)