单词 | mithridatize |
释义 | mithridatize in British English or mithridatise (mɪθˈrɪdəˌtaɪz) verb (transitive) to cause (a person) to become resistant to a poison by giving increasingly larger dosages mithridatize in American English (ˈmɪθrɪˌdeitaiz) transitive verbWord forms: -tized, -tizing to induce a state of mithridatism in (a person) Also esp Brit mithridatise Word origin [1865–70; mithridat(ism) + -ize]This word is first recorded in the period 1865–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: racism, springboard, steamroller, tick-tack-toe, valence-ize is a verb-forming suffix occurring originally in loanwords from Greek that have enteredEnglish through Latin or French (baptize; barbarize; catechize); within English, -ize is added to adjectives and nouns to form transitive verbs with the general senses“to render, make” (actualize; fossilize; sterilize; Americanize), “to convert into, give a specified character or form to” (computerize; dramatize; itemize; motorize), “to subject to (as a process, sometimes named after its originator)” (hospitalize; terrorize; galvanize; oxidize; simonize; winterize). Also formed with -ize are a more heterogeneous group of verbs, usually intransitive, denoting a changeof state (crystallize), kinds or instances of behavior (apologize; moralize; tyrannize), or activities (economize; philosophize; theorize) |
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