1. past tense of etherize; to anesthetize with ether or to treat with ether
Usage: chiefly British spelling (American: etherized); medical/historical context; now largely archaic due to modern anesthetics
2. made insensible or unresponsive; dulled or numbed
Usage: figurative use; literary

Examples

• The patient was etherised before the surgical procedure began.
• In the 19th century, ether was commonly used to etherised patients during operations.
• The poem describes a mind etherised by routine and monotony.
• Once etherised, the patient felt no pain during the extraction.
• Modern medicine has largely replaced ether with safer agents to etherised surgical patients.
• His senses seemed etherised by the long, tedious journey.