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Definition of Narcotize
1. Verb. Administer narcotics to.
Definition of Narcotize
1. v. t. To imbue with, or subject to the influence of, a narcotic; to put into a state of narcosis.
Definition of Narcotize
1. Verb. (transitive) To use a narcotic in order to make someone drowsy or insensible; to anesthetize. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To dull the senses. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To make something into a narcotic. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Narcotize
1. [v -TIZED, -TIZING, -TIZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Narcotize
Literary usage of Narcotize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vade Mecum of Ophthalmological Therapeutics by Edmond Landolt (1898)
"It is dangerous to narcotize an individual twice on same day with this anaesthetic.
Pure ethyl bromide is colorless, completely transparent ; odor and taste ..."
2. Messiah Pulpitby Minot Judson Savage, Church of the Messiah (New York, N.Y.), Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) by Minot Judson Savage, Church of the Messiah (New York, N.Y.), Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1902)
"Neither is it wise to narcotize the brain for the sake of mental peace. There are
thousands of people in the world, there have been in the past, ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1871)
"A very minute dose is sufficient to narcotize ; a quarter of a grain, diffused
in fifty cubic inches of air at (50°, will narcotize frogs; and when these ..."
4. Psychological Effects of Alcohol: An Experimental Investigation of the by Raymond Dodge, Francis Gano Benedict (1915)
"The drug may narcotize the indicator directly. ... It may act on some remote
point of the neuro-muscular arc (1) to narcotize it directly, (2) to make it ..."
5. Handbook of Instructions for Collectors by British Museum (Natural History) (1906)
"In the case of soft contractile organisms it is necessary to narcotize them first
before attempting to kill, in order to prevent distortion. ..."
6. Stimulants and Narcotics: Medically, Philosophically, and Morally Considered by George Miller Beard (1871)
"(The quantity that may narcotize the majority of women and children, may only
stimulate the majority of ..."
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