rheumatize, v.
(ˈruːmətaɪz)
[ad. med.L. rheumatisāre to snuffle, or Gr. ῥευµατίζειν, f. ῥευµατ-, ῥεῦµα rheum1: see -ize.]
† 1. a. To bring ‘rheum’ or tears to (the eyes).
| 1593 Nashe Christ's T. 27 b, What should I..rumatize my Readers eyes, with the sadde tedious recitall? 1598 Tofte Alba (1880) 17 Whilst I my Readers eyes do rumatise With brinish drops to heare this wofull Tale. |
† b. ‘To shed tears’ (Cockeram, 1623). Obs.
2. trans. To make rheumatic, affect with rheumatism. Hence ˈrheumatizing ppl. a.
| 1852 Meanderings of Mem. I. 57 Raw November's rheumatizing grass. 1862 G. H. Kingsley Sport & Trav. (1900) 379 London..with its..cold,..rheumatising winds. 1876 Smiles Sc. Natur. xiii. (ed. 4) 276 It is not the cold, so much as the damp, that rheumatises the muscles. |