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narcotize, v.|ˈnɑːkətaɪz|
[f. narcot-ic a.]
1. trans. To bring or render insensible with a narcotic.
1843R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xiv. 151 He was evidently deeply narcotised. 1859R. F. Burton Centr. Africa in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 243 Near the coast the people narcotise fish with the juice of certain plants. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 823 Giving morphia by hypodermic injection in such large doses as to keep the patient deeply narcotised.
refl.1865Reader 1 Apr. 374/3 They narcotize, but do not nicotinize themselves.
2. transf. To dull or deaden. Also absol.
1864E. Sargent Peculiar II. 189 What wonder that he should narcotize his moral sense with the aroma of these social fascinations. 1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 248 They rather narcotize than fortify. 1894Du Maurier Trilby II. 252 He longed for his old brain-disease to come back and narcotise his trouble.
Hence ˈnarcotized ppl. a., ˈnarcotizing ppl. a.
1851H. Mayo Pop. Superst. (ed. 2) 138 The narcotising agent recommended by Mr. Jackson. 1863B. Taylor H. Thurston xiv. 183 It surrounded each fair face with a nimbus, to the narcotized vision of youth. 1878O. W. Holmes Motley 226 How much better is the restlessness of a noble ambition than the narcotized stupor of club-life.
Add:[2.] b. fig. To render insensible or stupid, as with a narcotic.
1942Sun (Baltimore) 1 Apr. 10/1 It is not very difficult for a Goebbels to map out a program for narcotizing the German people. 1970A. Toffler Future Shock (1971) xvi. 364 The family man who retreats into his evening..allows televised fantasy to narcotize him. 1985Los Angeles Times 20 Dec. v. 19/4 Has all this developed in us a trait of destructiveness, or narcotized what ought naturally to be an instinct for creativeness? |