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rheumatize, v.|ˈruːmətaɪz|
[ad. med.L. rheumatisāre to snuffle, or Gr. ῥευµατίζειν, f. ῥευµατ-, ῥεῦµα rheum1: see -ize.]
†1.
a. To bring ‘rheum’ or tears to (the eyes).
1593Nashe Christ's T. 27 b, What should I..rumatize my Readers eyes, with the sadde tedious recitall? 1598Tofte Alba (1880) 17 Whilst I my Readers eyes do rumatise With brinish drops to heare this wofull Tale.
†b. ‘To shed tears’ (Cockeram, 1623). Obs.
2. trans. To make rheumatic, affect with rheumatism. Hence ˈrheumatizing ppl. a.
1852Meanderings of Mem. I. 57 Raw November's rheumatizing grass. 1862G. H. Kingsley Sport & Trav. (1900) 379 London..with its..cold,..rheumatising winds. 1876Smiles Sc. Natur. xiii. (ed. 4) 276 It is not the cold, so much as the damp, that rheumatises the muscles. |