v. Obs. [ad. F. clystériser (16th c. in Littré) or late L. clystērīz-āre: see -IZE.] trans. a. To treat with a clyster; b. To inject (a medicine) as a clyster; c. ? (in gen. sense of Gr. κλύζ-ειν) To wash over, syringe (quot. 1543).
1543. Traheron, Vigo’s Chirurg., IV. 154. To take the same decoction … and to clysterize the sore place therewith.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 41. Stampe it and poure it down their throats, or els clysterize them with it. Ibid., II. 413. If it [sea-water] be clysterized hot, it allaieth the wrings and grindings of the bellie.
1601. R. Dolman, trans. Fr. Acad. (1618), III. lxxx. 819. The decoction thereof clisterized, serueth greatly for dysenterias.
1656. in Blount, Glossogr.
