frictionize

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English

Etymology

From friction +‎ -ize.

Verb

frictionize (third-person singular simple present frictionizes, present participle frictionizing, simple past and past participle frictionized)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To apply friction to.
    • 1893, The American Monthly Magazine, volume 3, page 219:
      Then to one grain of this compound add ninety nine grains more of sugar of milk, frictionize as before, and we get the second potency or attenuation, and so on, until the eleventh potency is reached, []
    • 1912, Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain). Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Proceedings (volume 5, page 67)
      The thing of supreme importance in this treatment was to instruct the patient to frictionize the gums so persistently with the tooth-brush that no infection of the sulci could take place.