mercurialize

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To be capricious or fantastic.
2. To treat or impregnate with mercury, as by exposure to its vapor, or immersion in a chemical solution of it. To mercurialize a photographic negative is to subject it to the action of a solution of bichlorid of mercury in order to intensify or reinforce the image. Plugs of mercurialized carbon are sometimes used in microphones and in the transmitter of a telephonic circuit.
3. In medicine, to affect with mercury, as the bodily system; bring under the influence of mercury. Also spelled mercurialise.

Wiktionary

1. v. chemistry, transitive To treat with mercury (the metal).
2. v. obsolete To be sprightly, fantastic, or capricious.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. (Med.) To affect with mercury.
2. v. (Photography) To treat with mercury; to expose to the vapor of mercury.
3. v. obsolete To be sprightly, fantastic, or capricious.