geologise

English

Verb

geologise (third-person singular simple present geologises, present participle geologising, simple past and past participle geologised)

1. Alternative form of geologize
   • 1834, Victor Jacquemont, Letters from India:

     I shall herbarise, geologise, or zoologise at their head if the opportunity occurs, and, with my bags filled, I will return upon the same horse as if the devil was at my heels; for it will then be twelve o'clock, and I shall have eaten nothing, after having been nearly fifteen hours on horseback, on foot, and in the mud and rain.

   • 1906, James Barr, Laughing through a wilderness, page 261:

     We were incompetent to map the country we passed through, to chart the waters, to geologise, botanise, zoologise, astronomise, or to any other ise.

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• geologies