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To separate (a compound) into ions, esp. by dissolving in water. --I`on*i*za"tion (#), n.

To imbue with the principles of abolitionism. [R.] Bartlett.

To prepare or treat with collodion. R. Hunt.

To free from inflections. Deflectionized languages are said to be analytic. Earle.

To make irreligious; to turn from religion. [R.] He would dereligionize men beyond all others. De Quincey.

To disenchant; to free from illusion. "The bitter disillusionizing experience of postnuptial life." W. Black.

To act; to represent on the stage, or theatrically. Urquhart.

To treat or regard as a lion or object of great interest. J. D. Forbes.

To flavor. [Obs.]

To bring under the influence of religion. [R.] Mallock.

To raise from the dead. [R.] Southey.

To change completely, as by a revolution; as, to revolutionize a government. Ames. The gospel . . . has revolutionized his soul. J. M. Mason.

To form into sections. [R.]

To come to the aid of; to subsidize; to support.

To free from an illusion; to disillusionize.

To change or alter by introducing something new; to remodel; to revolutionize. [Archaic] Burton. From his attempts upon the civil power, he proceeds to innovate God's worship. South.

ds: alpha rays, beta rays, and gamma rays (see these terms). By reason of these rays they ionize gases, affect photographic plates, cause sores on the skin, and produce many other striking effects. Their degree of activity depends on the proportion of radium present, but not on its state of chemical combination or on e…

luorescent effects. They were called X rays by their discoverer, W. K. Röntgen. They also ionize gases, but cannot be reflected, or polarized, or deflected by a magnetic field. They are regarded as nonperiodic, transverse pulses in the ether. They are used in examining opaque objects, as for locating fractures or bulle…

To subventionize.