electrized

comparative more electrized · superlative most electrized

1. obsoleteElectrically charged.

   When an electrized body is presented to an insulated conducting body, signs of electricity are developed, even though the bodies are a greater or less distance apart .

   1862, Thomas Rawson Birks, On Matter and Ether, Or The Secret Laws of Physical Change, page 149

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   Resin, pitch, sealing-wax, caoutchouc, sulphur, gutta-percha, and generally all bodies commonly termed resinous, besides a great variety of others, will be found to acquire, after friction, the power of attracting light bodies, and hence will be said, according to a limitation of terms already accepted, to be in an electrized or electrified state .

   1855, William Somerville Orr, Orr's Circle of the Sciences, page 205

   As experiments teach us that all bodies in nature upon being rubbed acquire one or the other of these two electricities, the following law is deduced […] That there is attraction between an electrized body and a body that is not so.

   1860, Alfred Charles Garratt, Electro-physiology and electro-therapeutics, page 23

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of electrize