v. Obs. [f. VOLAT-ILE a. + -IZE. Cf. VOLATILIZE v.]
1. trans. = VOLATILIZE v. 1.
1650. Ashmole, Chym. Coll., 96. If thou wouldst Volatise or Imbibe thy prepared Elixer.
1671. J. Webster, Metallogr., xii. 170. As easily as snow is volatized and melted in warm water.
1693. trans. Blancard’s Phys. Dict., 75/1. A Lymphatick Juice, which it discharges into the gut … to ferment and volatize the Meat.
1790. Burke, Fr. Rev., 277. By this means the spirit of money jobbing and speculation goes into the mass of land itself, and incorporates with it. By this kind of operation, that species of property becomes (as it were) volatized.
1826. Henry, Elem. Chem., I. 6. The common stili … can only be employed for volatizing substances that do not act on copper.
2. intr. VOLATILIZE v. 2. rare.
1685. [Implied in Volatizing ppl. a.].
1812. Sir H. Davy, Chem. Philos., 271. It fuses at about 220° Fahrenheit, and volatizes slowly even before it fuses.
Hence † Volatized, Volatizing ppl. adjs.
1671. J. Webster, Metallogr., iii. 45. Æther, which some hold to be nothing else but pure volatiz’d Salt.
1685. Boyle, Salubr. Air, 111. Some Mineral Bodies of a very volatizing nature.
