English

Verb

Listerize ‎(third-person singular simple present Listerizes, present participle Listerizing, simple past and past participle Listerized)

1. (transitive, dated) To make antiseptic.
   • 1878, Maryland Medical Journal: Medicine and Surgery, volume 4, page 284:

     […] after Esmarch we hold back the bloody torrent which once gushed forth after the catling; and Listerizing with Lister's spray we bar all passage into gaping wounds of motes that people the sunbeam and breed havoc in the tract of the sanguineous life stream.

   • 1887, Homœopathic Journal of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Pediatrics, page 144:

     Another operation was urged as a necessity (for what I never heard), and after much cutting, scraping and Listerizing, it was pronounced to be cancer of the womb, and in February she died.

   • 1902, The Nineteenth Century and After, page 102:

     Still, all unknown, the message had gone forth from the miserable little garret at the Ecole Normale, and, though little understood, the whisper reached Pasteur that the English surgeons at Bazeilles were 'Listerizing' wounds with great success.