etherize

English

Etymology

From ether +‎ -ize. Compare French éthériser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːθəɹaɪz/

Verb

etherize (third-person singular simple present etherizes, present participle etherizing, simple past and past participle etherized)

1. To convert into ether.
2. To render insensible by means of ether, as by inhalation.

   Hypernyms: anesthetize, (colloquial) knock out

   to etherize a patient

   • 1915 June, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and Other Observations, London: The Egotist […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 9:

     Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table; […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “etherize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)