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mithridatise

mithridatise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of mithridatize.

Meaning of mithridatize

Verb

mithridatize (third-person singular simple present mithridatizes, present participle mithridatizing, simple past and past participle mithridatized)

  1. (US) To make immune to a poison by administration of gradually increasing doses.
    • Our constitutions adapt themselves to the slow poison of the world till we become mithridatized at last.1866, J.R. Lowell, letter

Forms of mithridatise

third-person singular presentmithridatises
present participlemithridatising
past participlemithridatised
pastmithridatised

Origin of mithridatise

From Latin Mithridates + -ise, in reference to Mithridates VI of Pontus.

Words formed from mithridatise

Questions about mithridatise

What is mithridatise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Mithridatise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of mithridatize.

Words near mithridatise in the dictionary

  1. mithridatic
  2. mithridatically
  3. mithridaticon
  4. mithridatics
  5. mithridatisation
  6. mithridatise
  7. mithridatised
  8. mithridatises
  9. mithridatising
  10. mithridatism
  11. mithridatium

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mithridatise (page history and authors); mithridatize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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