cinchonize

English

Etymology

cinchona +‎ -ize

Verb

cinchonize (third-person singular simple present cinchonizes, present participle cinchonizing, simple past and past participle cinchonized)

  1. (transitive) To produce cinchonism in; to poison with quinine or cinchona.
    • 1892, Hobart Amory Hare, “Malarial Diseases”, in A System of Practical Therapeutics: Fevers:
      Its taste is very faint (though it is very readily brought out by acids), and it usually cinchonizes very promptly in sufficient doses.
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