mineralize

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English

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Etymology

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From mineral +‎ -ize.

Verb

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mineralize (third-person singular simple present mineralizes, present participle mineralizing, simple past and past participle mineralized)

  1. To convert to a mineral; to petrify.
    • 1823, William Buckland, Reliquiæ Diluvianæ:
      in all these cases , the bones found in caverns are never mineralised, but simply in the state of grave bones more or less decayed or incrusted by stalagmite ; and have no farther connexion with the rocks themselves
  2. To impregnate with minerals.
    mineralized water
  3. To mineralogize; to collect and study minerals.
    • 1978, Eleanor Marguerite Tilton, Amiable Autocrat: A Biography of Doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes:
      He was a senior when he asked Barnes if he ever went "mineralizing," referred admiringly to Bowdoin's Professor Cleaveland, and expressed a wish to "give a good knock about the rocks in Maine."

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Verb

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mineralize

  1. inflection of mineralizar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative