Word Meanings - ETHERIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To convert into ether. 2. To render insensible by means of ether, as by inhalation; as, to etherize a patient.

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• CONVERTIBILITY
  The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
• ETHERIFORM
  Having the form of ether.
• ETHERIN
  A white, crystalline hydrocarbon, regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, obtained in heavy oil of wine, the residue left after making ether; -- formerly called also concrete oil of wine.
• INSENSIBLENESS
  Insensibility. Bp. Hall.
• ETHEREALITY
  The state of being ethereal; etherealness. Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp.
• ETHEREALLY
  In an ethereal manner.
• ETHERIZATION
  The administration of ether to produce insensibility. The state of the system under the influence of ether.
• ETHEREAL
  Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts. Ethereal oil. See Essential oil, under Essential. -- Ethereal oil of wine , a heavy, yellow, oily liquid consisting essentially of etherin, etherol, and ethyl sulphate. It
• PATIENTLY
  In a patient manner. Cowper.
• CONVERTIBLY
  In a convertible manner.
• ETHEREALIZE
  1. To convert into ether, or into subtile fluid; to saturate with ether. 2. To render ethereal or spiritlike. Etherealized, moreover, by spiritual communications with the other world. Hawthorne.
• CONVERTIBLE
  1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. 2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
• CONVERTEND
  Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the conversae. See Converse, n. .
• ETHEREALIZATION
  An ethereal or spiritlike state. J. H. Stirling.
• RENDERABLE
  Capable of being rendered.
• ETHERIZE
  1. To convert into ether. 2. To render insensible by means of ether, as by inhalation; as, to etherize a patient.
• RENDER
  One who rends.
• INSENSIBLE
  1. Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility. Milton. 2. Not susceptible of emotion or passion; void of feeling; apathetic; unconcerned; indifferent; as, insensible to danger, fear, love, etc.; -- often used with
• RENDERER
  1. One who renders. 2. A vessel in which lard or tallow, etc., is rendered.
• ETHEREALNESS
  Ethereality.
• AETHER
  See ETHER
• COMPATIENT
  Suffering or enduring together. Sir G. Buck.
• OVERPATIENT
  Patient to excess.
• TELETHERMOGRAPH
  A record of fluctuations of temperature made automatically at a distant station. An instrument, usually electrical, making such records.
• OMNIPATIENT
  Capable of enduring all things. Carlyle.
• OUT-PATIENT
  A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aid from it.
• INCONVERTED
  Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne.
• RECONVERTIBLE
  Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
• UNCONVERTED
  1. Not converted or exchanged. 2. Not changed in opinion, or from one faith to another. Specifically: -- Not persuaded of the truth of the Christian religion; heathenish. Hooker. Unregenerate; sinful; impenitent. Baxter.
• PHASE CONVERTER
  A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency.
• INCONVERTIBLE
  Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh.
• NETHER
  Situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower; under; -- opposed to upper. 'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires. Milton. This darksome nether world her light Doth