Ergotize

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To affect with ergot. transitive

    "We refer now to the power possessed by this fungus of infecting healthy grains of corn, and of ergotizing them."

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"We refer now to the power possessed by this fungus of infecting healthy grains of corn, and of ergotizing them."

Etymology

From ergot + -ize.

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