Mineralize

Min′er-al-ize

,

Verb.

T.

[

imp. & p. p.

Mineralized

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Mineralizing

.]

[Cf. F.

minéraliser

.]

1.

To transform into a mineral.

In these caverns the bones are not

mineralized

.

Buckland.

2.

To impregnate with a mineral;

as,

mineralized

water

.

Min′er-al-ize

,

Verb.

I.

To go on an excursion for observing and collecting minerals; to mineralogize.

Mineralize

MIN'ERALIZE

,

Verb.

T.

[from mineral] In mineralogy, to combine with a metal in forming an ore or mineral. Sulphur mineralizes many of the metals.

1.

To convert into a mineral.

In these caverns, the bones are not mineralized.

2.

To impregnate with a mineral substance; as, to mineralize water.

mineralize

English

Verb

mineralize ‎(third-person singular simple present mineralizes, present participle mineralizing, simple past and past participle mineralized)

To convert to a mineral; to petrify.
- Buckland
  In these caverns the bones are not mineralized.
To impregnate with minerals.
mineralized water
To mineralogize; to collect and study minerals.
- 1978, Eleanor Marguerite Tilton, Amiable Autocrat: A Biography of Doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes
  He was a senior when he asked Barnes if he ever went "mineralizing," referred admiringly to Bowdoin's Professor Cleaveland, and expressed a wish to "give a good knock about the rocks in Maine."