Also -isation. [a. F. utilisation (1812): see next and -ATION.] The action of utilizing; the fact of being utilized.
1847. Webster.
1864. Lowell, Fireside Trav. (1909), 57. A man of genius, but of genius that evaded utilization.
1881. Sir W. Thomson, in Nature, XXIV. 434. The utilisation of tidal energy.
1894. Grant Allen in Westm. Gaz., 12 June, 2/1. The whole history of the human race on earth is a continuous history of successive utilisations.
