cauterizer
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]cauterizer (plural cauterizers)
- One who, or that which, cauterizes.
- 2007 April 3, Charles Mcgrath, “Atul Gawande Rocks in the O.R.”, in New York Times[1]:
- Various wands and clippers and cauterizers went into other little holes, and while watching the screens, the two doctors moved them around as if working joysticks on a video game.
Derived terms
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[edit]Middle French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]cauterizer
- (figuratively) to toughen; to harden
- 1595, Michel de Montaigne, Essais:
- Je ne croy pas qu'une ame cauterizée sçeut contrefaire une telle assurance
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
[edit]- Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of cauterizer
| infinitive | simple | cauterizer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle1 or gerund2 | simple | cauterizant | |||||
| compound | present participle or gerund of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | cauterizé | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | ie (i’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ilz, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cauterize | cauterizes | cauterize | cauterizons | cauterizez | cauterizent |
| imperfect | cauterizois, cauterizoys | cauterizois, cauterizoys | cauterizoit, cauterizoyt | cauterizions, cauterizyons | cauteriziez, cauterizyez | cauterizoient, cauterizoyent | |
| past historic | cauteriza | cauterizas | cauteriza | cauterizasmes | cauterizastes | cauterizerent | |
| future | cauterizerai, cauterizeray | cauterizeras | cauterizera | cauterizerons | cauterizerez | cauterizeront | |
| conditional | cauterizerois, cauterizeroys | cauterizerois, cauterizeroys | cauterizeroit, cauterizeroyt | cauterizerions, cauterizeryons | cauterizeriez, cauterizeryez | cauterizeroient, cauterizeroyent | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que ie (i’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ilz, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cauterize | cauterizes | cauterize | cauterizons | cauterizez | cauterizent |
| imperfect | cauterizasse | cauterizasses | cauterizast | cauterizassions | cauterizassiez | cauterizassent | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | cauterize | — | cauterizons | cauterizez | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The present participle was variable in gender and number until the 17th century (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], Une esthétique nouvelle: Honoré d'Urfé, correcteur de l'Astrée, p. 179). The French Academy would eventually declare it not to be declined in 1679. | |||||||
| 2 The gerund was held to be invariable by grammarians of the early 17th century, and was usable with preposition en, as in Modern French, although the preposition was not mandatory (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], op. cit., p. 180). | |||||||
Descendants
[edit]- French: cautériser