meteorize
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]meteorize (third-person singular simple present meteorizes, present participle meteorizing, simple past and past participle meteorized)
- To weather
- (poetic, archaic) To ascend in vapours; to take the form of a meteor.
- 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
- the Dews may meteorize , and emit their finer Spirits
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “meteorize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)