LISTERIZE

PRONUNCIATION: (LIS-tuh-ryz)

MEANING: verb tr.: To make antiseptic.

ANAGRAM: listerize = sterilize

ETYMOLOGY: Coined after Joseph Lister (1827-1912) surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic medicine. Earliest documented use: 1888. Besides this word, some other things named after Joseph Lister are Listerine (originally a surgical antiseptic), the bacterial genus Listeria, and the slime mold genus Listerella.
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LOSTERIZE (anagram: ZOSTERILE) - afflicted by re-activated Herpes zoster virus causing shingles obscuring the cornea, and therefore unable to see

(BTW, purists would reserve the word "anagram" for this kind of self-defining rearrangement. What you and I call an anagram, they would call a "transposal.")

LISZTERIE - anything composed by Franz Liszt

LISTPRIZE - what you get for paying the full amount for something
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