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[SIK-ah-trize'] 
transitive verb
1. to heal after an injury by the formation of scar tissue: "John took great care to use gentle, supportive language with his son, as he was keenly aware of the risk of lingering emotional trauma, even if a child can cicatrize relatively quickly."
intransitive verb
2. to become healed after an injury by the formation of scar tissue
noun form: cicatrization
adjective form: cicatrizant
Origin:
Approximately 1400; from Middle English 'cicatrizen'; from Old French, 'cicatriser'; from Medieval Latin, 'cicatrizare'; from Late Latin, 'cicatricari': to scar over; from Latin, 'cicatrix'. In Action:
"The expansion of technology and the intertwining of national economies have already produced a de facto unified world in which any major conflict means the opening of a wound in a living body and any major war entails a bloodletting from this fissure which weakens the organism as a whole; but prior to the discovery of atomic energy, mankind could hope to pass through a sequence of such bloodlettings and cicatrize its wounds after each of them. The great jump from the chemical into the nuclear age has made the continuation of this historical 'tradition' impossible. This jump is irreversible: Never again can there arise a system of independent and sovereign nations, able to conduct their international policies as their "national interests" dictate them, resorting to force when other methods fail, without endangering not only their own existence but the survival of the whole human race."
Eugene Rabinowitch. "The Dawn of a New Age: Reflections on Science and Human Affairs" (1963).
"I have struck well. They fly,
But carry wounds that none can cicatrize."
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928). "Wessex Poems & Other Verses," (1898). | |
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