[ verb ] make volatile; cause to pass off in a vapor <verb.change>volatilise
Volatilize \Vol"a*til*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Volatilized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Volatilizing}.] [Cf. F. volatiliser.] To render volatile; to cause to exhale or evaporate; to cause to pass off in vapor.
The water . . . dissolving the oil, and volatilizing it by the action. --Sir I. Newton.