† ˈclysterize, v. Obs.
[ad. F. clystériser (16th c. in Littré) or late L. clystērīz-āre: see -ize.]
trans. a. To treat with a clyster; b. To inject (a medicine) as a clyster; c. ? (in gen. sense of Gr. κλύζ-ειν) To wash over, syringe (quot. 1543).
| 1543 Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. iv. 154 To take the same decoction..and to clysterize the sore place therewith. 1601 Holland Pliny II. 41 Stampe it and pour it down their throats, or els clysterize them with it. Ibid. II. 413 If it [sea-water] be clysterized hot, it allaieth the wrings and grindings of the belly. 1601 R. Dolman tr. Fr. Acad. (1618) iii. lxxx. 819 The decoction thereof clisterized, serueth greatly for dysenterias. 1656 in Blount Glossogr. |