cadaverise

English

Verb

cadaverise (third-person singular simple present cadaverises, present participle cadaverising, simple past and past participle cadaverised)

1. Alternative form of cadaverize
   • 1841 April, “The Condemned Cells”, in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 23, number 136, page 421:

     During this man's imprisonment, he had adopted every available means of reducing himself; and as his name was called for trial, he was seen thumping his elbows violently against the walls of the dock, to effect a temporary suspension of the circulation, and cadaverise his countenance.

   • 1994, Barry Smart, Michel Foucault, page 80:

     The medicine of the nineteenth century was haunted by that occult eye which cadaverises life.

   • 2016, Bostjan Nedoh, Lacan and Deleuze: A Disjunctive Synthesis, page 68:

     Worms like words devitalise and cadaverise the body turning it into cheese-flesh.