peptonize

American  

[pep-tuh-nahyz] / ˈpɛp təˌnaɪz /

especially British, peptonise

verb (used with object)

peptonized, peptonizing

1. to subject (food) to an artificial, partial digestion by pepsin or pancreatic extract in order to aid digestion.

2. to hydrolyze or dissolve by a proteolytic enzyme, as pepsin.

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peptonize British  

/ ˈpɛptəˌnaɪz /

verb

1. (tr) to hydrolyse (a protein) to peptones by enzymic action, esp by pepsin or pancreatic extract

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Other Word Forms

• peptonization
  noun
• peptonizer
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of peptonize

First recorded in 1875–80; peptone + -ize

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

peptonize peptonized peptonizing

To completely peptonize the milk, two hours are required.

From The Mother and Her Child by William S. Sadler

Is it better to peptonize the whole day's supply, or each bottle separately just before feeding?

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter

Peptonized Milk Punch.—In the usual milk punch recipes the specially peptonized milk may be used in place of ordinary milk.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter

If the vomiting be so severe as to affect nutrition, the child should be sustained by peptonized milk, soup, or gruel, given by the bowel.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

In accordance with the present popular ideas, both in and out of the profession, this patient tells me she has tried a great variety of foods, peptonized, sterilized, and predigested, but all to no purpose.

From Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say by Martha Meir Allen

Mellins' malted milk, Borden's malted milk, peptonized milk, Imperial Granum, and follow the directions on the bottle.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter

Lean beef and the flesh of eels and flounders were digested in artificial gastric juice; the amount of raw flesh thus peptonized was in all cases greater than that of cooked meat similarly treated.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889 by Various

As Author William Bolitho once wrote, adventure's "adepts are rarely chaste, or merciful, or even law-abiding at all, and any moral peptonizing, or sugaring, takes out the interest, with the truth, of their lives."

From Time Magazine Archive

None, if peptonizing is continued for only ten minutes, but at the end of twenty minutes it begins to be bitter, when the process of digestion has gone further.

From The Care and Feeding of Children A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses by L. Emmett Holt

Digesting or peptonizing group, those capable of rendering the casein of milk soluble and more or less completely digested.

From Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying by H. L. (Harry Luman) Russell

Process.—Mix milk, water and peptonizing agents, and immediately place the bottle on ice.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter

They wanted me to examine the aphorisms and orisonswettmardenisms they had been printing on their weekly envelopes, for the inspiration and peptonizing of their employees.

From Shandygaff by Christopher Morley

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