Listerize

present singular third person Listerizes · participle present Listerizing · participle past Listerized · past Listerized

1. datedtransitiveTo make antiseptic.

   Another operation was urged as a necessity (for what I never heard), and after much cutting, scraping and Listerizing, it was pronounced to be cancer of the womb, and in February she died.

   1887, Homœopathic Journal of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Pediatrics, page 144

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   […] after Esmarch we hold back the bloody torrent which once gushed forth after the catling; and Listerizing with Lister's spray we bar all passage into gaping wounds of motes that people the sunbeam and breed havoc in the tract of the sanguineous life stream.

   1878, Maryland Medical Journal: Medicine and Surgery, volume 4, page 284

   Still, all unknown, the message had gone forth from the miserable little garret at the Ecole Normale, and, though little understood, the whisper reached Pasteur that the English surgeons at Bazeilles were 'Listerizing' wounds with great success.

   1902, The Nineteenth Century and After, page 102