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▪ I. cicatrize, v.|ˈsɪkətraɪz|
Forms: 6 siccatrize, 7 cicatrice, 6– -ise, -ize.
[ad. mod.L. cicatrizare, It. cicatrizzare, f. F. cicatrise-r, -izer, in 16th c. cicatricer, ad. L. cicātrīcāre to scar over (a wound), f. cicātrīc-em scar.
(In Fr., It., mod.L., and Eng., assimilated to verbs in -izāre, -iser, -ize, as if short for cicatricize.)]
1. trans. To heal (a wound, sore, ulcer, etc.) by inducing a cicatrice or scar; to skin over.
1563T. Gale Antidot. i. x. 6 Medicines which are to be vsed to cicatrize an vlcer. 1643I. Steer tr. Exp. Chyrurg. x. 45 Cicatrice the Vlcer. 1804Abernethy Surg. Obs. 55 Before the skin was cicatrized. 1856Thackeray Christmas Bks. (1872) 21 But time has cicatrised the wounded heart.
2. intr. (said of the wound, sore, etc.) To become healed by the formation of a cicatrice.
1582J. Hester Secr. Phiorav. i. iv. 5 Whiche [oleum]..warmeth the place that is broke, and helpeth it to siccatrize. 1609Holland Amm. Marcel. xxii. xv. 213 Untill the wounds doe cicatrice, and be whole and even againe. 1861T. Graham Pract. Med. 289 The cavity cicatrizes. 1866Spectator 10 Feb. 157/1 Of all the local wounds dealt by the Federal power, this..would be the latest to cicatrize.
3. trans. To mark with scars; to scar. Also fig.
1708Motteux Rabelais (1737) V. 231 When angry Mars Burgundia cicatris'd. 1884Stevenson New Arab. Nts. 242 The face of the links was cicatrised with little patches of burnt furze. 1885Athenæum 15 Aug. 211/3 Both sexes cicatrize their arms..with small spots by means of red-hot stones.
Hence ˈcicatrized ppl. a., ˈcicatrizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 423 The fat of these Beasts..if the Ulcers are corrupt and rotten..doth bring them to cicatrising. 1610Markham Masterp. i. x. 27 Cicatrizing and dry simples. 1670Moral State Eng. 54 (T.) The lately cicatrised wound. a1793J. Hunter Treat. on Blood, etc. (1794) 484 The cicatrizing skin. 1805W. Saunders Min. Waters 506 The cicatrizing of a wound. 1884De Bary's Phaner. 473 The undulated course of the woody fibres, which appears on cicatrised wounds.
▪ II. cicatrize
obs. form of cicatrice. |