ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.] 1. Converted into mere carbon or charcoal, charred.
1858. Geikie, Hist. Boulder, iv. 53. A … mass of carbonized matter.
1863. Q. Rev., 380. In the Lake of Constance … have been found … carbonised wheat, grains of barley, [etc.].
2. = CARBURETTED, CARBURIZED. arch.
1808. Henry, in Phil. Trans., XCVIII. 285. Carbonized hydrogen, from Stagnant water.
1875. Ure, Dict. Arts, III. 899. Steel so produced being more carbonized on the surface than at the centre of the bar.
3. Covered or prepared with carbon so as to yield a copy of anything written over it.
1883. Daily News, 19 Sept., 7/1. His duty was to keep an account of the sales and receipts … and, by means of carbonised papers, to make duplicate copies.
