preservatize

English

Alternative forms

• preservatise

Verb

preservatize (third-person singular simple present preservatizes, present participle preservatizing, simple past and past participle preservatized)

1. (transitive, chiefly Australia, New Zealand) To treat with a preservative.
   • 1927 September 4, Sunday Times‎^[1], Perth, Western Australia:

     Mr. Law states:— "The writer of the paragraph endeavors to give the impression that most of the fish being sold in Perth is preservatised, and as it is spoken of as reeking of preservatives, it is assumed that chemical preservatives are suggested. […] "

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VI, in Capricornia‎^[2], page 87:

     In such a climate the use of preservatives in brewing was imperative, but Joe Ballest would use none but O.P. rum; he belonged to that backward school of drinkers which regards scientifically preservatised liquors as All Chemicals and therefore harmful; hence his beer always turned out to be all clots and ropes and bacteria.

   • 1960, FAO, Unasylva, Vol. 14, No. 4, [3]

     According to an official report to FAO, New Zealand is now by far the world's largest producer per head of population of preservatized timber for building purposes.

   • 1987, Forensic Science International 34(1-2), G.L. Dick & H.M. Stone, "Alcohol loss arising from microbial contamination of drivers' specimens." [4]

     Strains of the bacteria Serratia marcescens and a Pseudomonas sp. […] were shown to be active in alcohol degradation in preservatised blood […]