ergotize
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]ergotize (third-person singular simple present ergotizes, present participle ergotizing, simple past and past participle ergotized)
- (transitive) To affect with ergot.
- 1846, Pharmaceutical Journal: A Weekly Record of Pharmacy and Allied Sciences:
- We refer now to the power possessed by this fungus of infecting healthy grains of corn, and of ergotizing them.