cinchonize

English

Etymology

From cinchona +‎ -ize.

Verb

cinchonize (third-person singular simple present cinchonizes, present participle cinchonizing, simple past and past participle cinchonized)

1. (transitive) To produce cinchonism in; to poison with quinine or cinchona.
   • 1892, Hobart Amory Hare, “Malarial Diseases”, in A System of Practical Therapeutics: Fevers:

     Its taste is very faint (though it is very readily brought out by acids), and it usually cinchonizes very promptly in sufficient doses.