ppl. a. rare. [ad. F. volcanisé (Buffon, etc.), f. volcan VOLCAN: see -IZE.] Affected or altered by volcanic action or heat.
1792. A. Young, Trav. France, 286. The French naturalists,… assert the depth to be twenty feet of beds of earth, formed of the ruins of what they style the primitive (granite) and volcanized mountains.
1798. trans. Spallanzani’s Trav. Sicilies, vi. I. 190. So as to form a soil entirely volcanized. Ibid., vii. I. 200. In a volcanized country, where stones of any other than a volcanic nature are not to be found.
Hence Volcanize v. trans. (Cf. VULCANIZE v.)
1828. Webster (citing Spallanzani), and in later Dicts.
