porcelainize

English

Etymology

Verb

porcelainize (third-person singular simple present porcelainizes, present participle porcelainizing, simple past and past participle porcelainized)

(transitive) To bake like porcelain.
porcelainized clay shales
To make or become glassy or porcelain-like.
- 1839, The Repertory of Patent Inventions, page 267:
  They may, however, be used as shewn in the drawing, but such walls must be built entirely of the best description of fire bricks or lumps and fire-clay, and should not be connected above with any portion of the work, as they are sure to fuse or porcelainize more or less .
- 1981, Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat, page 667:
  Screw a spout into her mouth and porcelainize her for a men's room in Kabool!
- 2007, Alan Farrell, High Cheekbones, Pouty Lips, Tight Jeans, page 49:
  When Patience discovers the plot to porcelainize the flesh of America's fee-males (obsessed, of course, with beauty only under the savage dominion of — ptui! —male lookism), they kill her!
To apply a glassy or porcelain-like coating or finish to.
- 1953, Investor - Volume 4, page 26:
  In recent months a technique has been worked out to porcelainize the steel blanks .
- 1954, “(advertisement)”, in Popular Science, volume 165, page 93:
  Permanently porcelainize your laundry trays, new or old, at 1⁄2 the cost of new trays. Just brush revolutionary EV-R-SHIELD Glascote inside your tubs.
- 1973, Laurence Adams Malone, How to Mend Your Treasures, page 121:
  Porcelainize mended surfaces.

Alternative forms

porcelanize

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “porcelainize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)