mineralize

present singular third person mineralizes · participle present mineralizing · participle past mineralized · past mineralized

1. transitiveTo convert to a mineral; to petrify.

   in all these cases , the bones found in caverns are never mineralised, but simply in the state of grave bones more or less decayed or incrusted by stalagmite ; and have no farther connexion with the rocks themselves

   1823, William Buckland, Reliquiæ Diluvianæ

2. transitiveTo impregnate with minerals.

   mineralized water

3. intransitiveTo mineralogize; to collect and study minerals.

   He was a senior when he asked Barnes if he ever went "mineralizing," referred admiringly to Bowdoin's Professor Cleaveland, and expressed a wish to "give a good knock about the rocks in Maine."

   1978, Eleanor Marguerite Tilton, Amiable Autocrat: A Biography of Doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes