Also -isation. [f. VITALIZE v. + -ATION.] The action or process of vitalizing, or the state of being vitalized; an instance of this.
1828. J. C. Cross, in Transylvania Jrnl. Med., I. Nov., 464. The imperfect vitalization of the blood is evinced by the livor of the face, hands and other parts.
1846. J. Hudson, in Rep. & Papers Bot. (Ray Soc.), 306. The phenomenon of the vitalization of cells is brought about only by an excessive endosmose or nutrition.
1891. T. Hardy, Tess, xxxvi. Her love … might result in vitalisations that would inflict upon others what she had bewailed as a misfortune to herself.
a. 1901. F. W. H. Myers, Human Personality (1903), I. p. xxxiv. An increased subliminal vitalization of the organism.
