depotentise
English
Verb
depotentise (third-person singular simple present depotentises, present participle depotentising, simple past and past participle depotentised)
- Alternative form of depotentize
- 1985 March, Helen Fullerton, “Methyl Isocyanate Poisoning: A Homeopathic Remedy”, in The Hahnemannian Gleanings, page 68:
- It depotentises β-arabinose, whose element is copper, and which comprises the lymph gland and mammary gland membranes and the membranes of the eyelid and eyeballs.
- 1998, Madhava Ashish -, Relating to Reality:
- However, no merely formal safeguards can be effective against the power lust of persons who conspire to depotentise the very provisions intended to restrain just such persons as themselves.
- 2009, Tony Kearney, Boo!, page 22:
- The way the world often depotentises this urge is by providing plenty of meaning of the wrong kind to occupy the space meant for the search for causal meaning.