hyperoxygenate, v.
(-ˈɒksɪdʒɪneɪt)
[f. hyper- 4 + oxygenate.]
trans. To impregnate or combine with an excess of oxygen; to supersaturate with oxygen. (Chiefly in pa. pple.)
| 1793 Beddoes Calculus 223 By surcharging the blood with oxygene, by hyper-oxygenating it, if I may use the expression. Ibid. 264 An hyper-oxygenated atmosphere. 1803 Ann. Rev. I. 377/1 All those alkaline and earthy salts..are shown..to be hyperoxygenated muriates. 1855 Mayne Expos. Lex., Hyperoxygenatus,..hyperoxygenated. |
b. (humorous nonce-use, with allusion to Gr. ὀξύς sharp, acid.) To impart excess of sourness to.
| c 1811 Southey Let. to J. Murray in Smiles Mem. J. Murray (1891) I. 198 An old huckstering grocer..whose natural sourness..is hyperoxygenated by Methodism. |
So hyperoxygeˈnation, the action of hyperoxygenating or condition of being hyperoxygenated; hypeˈroxygenize v. trans. = hyperoxygenate (chiefly in pa. pple.).
| 1793 E. Darwin in Beddoes Lett. 61 Your..reasonings..indicate.. hyperoxygenation to be the cause of this fatal disease [consumption]. 1802 Chenevix in Phil. Trans. XCII. 126 Oxygenized and hyperoxygenized muriatic acids. 1811 Edin. Rev. XVII. 407 The acid supposed to be hyperoxygenized. 1875 H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 278 Dr. Colton..maintains the absurdity that nitrous oxide produces hyperoxygenation of the blood. |