febrilize

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Etymology

From febrile +‎ -ize.

Verb

febrilize (third-person singular simple present febrilizes, present participle febrilizing, simple past and past participle febrilized)

  1. (medicine, archaic) To induce fever; to affect with fever.
    • 1803, William Blackburne, Facts and Observations Concerning the Prevention and Cure of Scarlet Fever: With Some Remarks on the Origin of Acute Contagions in General, London: Bye and Law, pages 140–141:
      It has been proved, that the accumulation of human effluvia, where fever is not preſent, induces convulſion, and not fever*. We may venture to conclude, that human effluvia muſt be febrilized previous to their becoming infectious, conſequently no infectious fever can ariſe, but through the medium of a febrile body.