nitrogenize

American  

[nahy-troj-uh-nahyz, nahy-truh-juh-] / naɪˈtrɒdʒ əˌnaɪz, ˈnaɪ trə dʒə- /

especially British, nitrogenise

verb (used with object)

nitrogenized, nitrogenizing

1. to combine with nitrogen or add nitrogenous material to.

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nitrogenize British  

/ naɪˈtrɒdʒɪˌnaɪz /

verb

1. to combine or treat with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound

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Other Word Forms

• nitrogenation
  noun
• nitrogenization
  noun
• nonnitrogenized
  adjective
• unnitrogenized
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of nitrogenize

First recorded in 1895–1900; nitrogen + -ize

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

nitrogenize nitrogenized

To impregnate with azote, or nitrogen; to nitrogenize.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

In the first series of experiments, the daily allowance of food, though less copious on the tea days, was more nitrogenized, and nitrogen also was taken in as theine.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various

It is supposed by physiologists, that the exercise in gathering their food, rather than any peculiarity in its character, is necessary to convert the nitrogenized tissues into the nitrogenized principle of caseum or cheese.

From Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. by Richard L. Allen

The urinary organs constitute the main channel through which are excreted the nitrogenous or albuminoid principles, whether derived directly from the feed or from the muscular and other nitrogenized tissues of the body.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener

It is a complex affection directly connected with a plethora in the blood of nitrogenized constituents, with extreme nervous and muscular disorder and the excretion of a dense reddish or brownish urine.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener

These are ferments, such as Bacillus amylobacter, or butyric ferment, and B. septicus, or ferment of the putrefaction of nitrogenized substances.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 by Various