ergotize

English

Etymology

ergot +‎ -ize

Verb

ergotize (third-person singular simple present ergotizes, present participle ergotizing, simple past and past participle ergotized)

1. (transitive) To affect with ergot.
   • 1846, Pharmaceutical Journal: A Weekly Record of Pharmacy and Allied Sciences:

     We refer now to the power possessed by this fungus of infecting healthy grains of corn, and of ergotizing them.