Listerize
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To make antiseptic. dated, transitive
"[…] 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."
Example
More examples"[…] 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."
Etymology
From Lister + -ize.
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