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third-person singular simple present mineralizes, present participle mineralizing, simple past and past participle mineralized
To convert to a mineral; to petrify. quotations examples
in all these cases , the bones found in caverns are never mineralised, but simply in the state of grave bones more or less decayed or incrusted by stalagmite ; and have no farther connexion with the rocks themselves
1823, William Buckland, Reliquiæ Diluvianæ
To impregnate with minerals. examples
To mineralogize; to collect and study minerals. quotations examples
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."
1978, Eleanor Marguerite Tilton, Amiable Autocrat: A Biography of Doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes