Under the influence of ether; having been treated with ether; rendered unconscious by ether.
Past participle of 'etherize.' Used medically from the mid-1800s onward to describe patients prepared for surgery with ether anesthesia.
T.S. Eliot's famous line 'like a patient etherized upon a table' became one of the most striking images in modern poetry—he used this clinical medical state to describe spiritual numbness and alienation.
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