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/gˈælvənˌaɪz/ Listen

verb

Galvanize v. t. (past & past part. galvanized; pres. part. galvanizing)

To affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of electrical currents.

To plate, as with gold, silver, etc., by means of electricity.

To restore to consciousness by galvanic action (as from a state of suspended animation); hence, to stimulate or excite to a factitious animation or activity.

To coat, as iron, with zinc. See Galvanized iron.

Galvanized iron, formerly, iron coated with zink by electrical deposition; now more commonly, iron coated with zink by plunging into a bath of melted zink, after its surface has been cleaned by friction with the aid of dilute acid.

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Etymology of 'Galvanize'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Galvanize" Quotes from Famous Books

... this mistaken attempt to produce the cause by the effect, fancied themselves, and were pronounced by others, converted. Now the misfortune is, that this delusion is the more easy from the fact that the results of the two kinds of causes resemble each other. You may galvanize the nerve of a corpse till the action of a limb startles the spectator with the appearance of life. It is not life, it is only a spasmodic hideous mimicry of life. Men having seen that the spiritual is always associated with forms, endeavour by reproducing the forms ...

— Sermons Preached at Brighton - Third Series • Frederick W. Robertson