etherize

etherise

From ether +‎ -ize. Compare French éthériser.

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːθəɹaɪz/

etherize (third-person singular simple present etherizes, present participle etherizing, simple past and past participle etherized)

1. To convert into ether.

   etherize a spirit

2. (historical) To anesthesize by means of ether (diethyl ether), often by inhalation.

   Hypernyms: anesthetize, (colloquial) knock out

   to etherize a patient

   • 1915 June, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and Other Observations, London: The Egoist […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 9:

     Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table; […]

• “etherize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.