physiologize

English

Etymology

From physiology +‎ -ize.

Verb

physiologize (third-person singular simple present physiologizes, present participle physiologizing, simple past and past participle physiologized)

1. To speculate in physiology; to make physiological investigations.
   • 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:

     But to pass from Pythagoras himself ; that Empedocles , who was a Pythagorean also , did physiologize atomically , is a thing that could hardly be doubted of

References

“physiologize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.