electrized

English

Adjective

electrized (comparative more electrized, superlative most electrized)

1. (obsolete) Electrically charged.
   • 1855, William Somerville Orr, Orr's Circle of the Sciences, page 205:

     Resin, pitch, sealing-wax, caoutchouc, sulphur, gutta-percha, and generally all bodies commonly termed resinous, besides a great variety of others, will be found to acquire, after friction, the power of attracting light bodies, and hence will be said, according to a limitation of terms already accepted, to be in an electrized or electrified state .

   • 1860, Alfred Charles Garratt, Electro-physiology and electro-therapeutics, page 23:

     As experiments teach us that all bodies in nature upon being rubbed acquire one or the other of these two electricities, the following law is deduced […] That there is attraction between an electrized body and a body that is not so.

   • 1862, Thomas Rawson Birks, On Matter and Ether, Or The Secret Laws of Physical Change, page 149:

     When an electrized body is presented to an insulated conducting body, signs of electricity are developed, even though the bodies are a greater or less distance apart .

Derived terms

• nonelectrized
• unelectrized

Verb

electrized

1. simple past and past participle of electrize