Meanings
verbcinchonize (third-person singular simple present cinchonizes, present participle cinchonizing, simple past and past participle cinchonized)
present singular third person cinchonizes · participle present cinchonizing · participle past cinchonized · past cinchonized
- transitiveTo produce cinchonism in; to poison with quinine or cinchona.
Its taste is very faint (though it is very readily brought out by acids), and it usually cinchonizes very promptly in sufficient doses.
1892, Hobart Amory Hare, “Malarial Diseases”, in A System of Practical Therapeutics: Fevers
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