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frictionize en · VERB

Etymology

From friction + -ize.

Meanings

1. (archaic, transitive) To apply friction to.
   • Then to one grain of this compound add ninety nine grains more of sugar of milk, frictionize as before, and we get the second potency or attenuation, and so on, until the eleventh potency is reached, […] 1893, The American Monthly Magazine, volume 3, page 219:
   • The thing of supreme importance in this treatment was to instruct the patient to frictionize the gums so persistently with the tooth-brush that no infection of the sulci could take place. 1912, Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain). Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Proceedings (volume 5, page 67)

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