Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for VOL'A-TIL-IZE
VOL-A-TIL-I-ZA'TIONVOL'A-TIL-IZ-ED
VOL'A-TIL-IZE, v.t. [Fr. volatiliser.]
To render volatile; to cause to exhale or evaporate; to cause to pass off in vapor or invisible effluvia, and to rise and float in the air. The water … dissolving the oil, and volatilizing it by the action. – Newton.
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