v. Also bitumenize. [f. L. bitumin- + -IZE.] trans. To convert into, or impregnate with, bitumen; to cover or varnish with bitumen. Hence Bituminized, Bituminizing ppl. adjs.
1751. Stack, in Phil. Trans., XLVII. 273. Wax bituminized by burning.
1816. Edin. Rev., XXVI. 165. Trunks of bituminized wood.
1854. H. Miller, Footpr. Creat., x. (1874), 193. Injured by compression or the bitumenizing process.
1861. Gladstone, in Times, 3 May, 6/3. This … is a bitumenized pipe, and these pipes are made of paper covered over with pitch.
