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Webster 1913 Edition
Geologize
Ge-ol′o-gize
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Geologized
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Geologizing
.] To study geology or make geological investigations in the field; to discourse as a geologist.
During midsummer
geologized
a little in Shropshire. Darwin.
Definition 2025
geologize
geologize
English
Verb
geologize (third-person singular simple present geologizes, present participle geologizing, simple past and past participle geologized)
- To study the geology of a location in the field
- 1824, The British Critic
- ...those many valuable writers, who have unwisely lent their science to uphold and propagate the vicious doctrine of a chaotic geogeny, may geologize with full security...
- 1830, "Geology", American Quarterly Review
- We travel here in an extraordinary manner, but we cannot geologize by steam-boats.
- 1839, Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle
- We continued northwards in a zigzag line; sometimes stopping a day to geologize.
- 1864, Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth
- There was a certain wood, which, by rising at early morn, and taking the cheap train, I could reach at eleven in the morning. Here I would botanize or geologize at my will.
- 1869, The Spectator, 27 March.
- ...and ploughmen will botanize or geologize on their way home from their daily toil...
- 2007, Charles Kingsley, Madame How and Lady Why: First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children, ISBN 1425087612.
- And between the intervals of eating fruit, we will geologize on the way home, with this little bit of paper to show us where we are.
- 2011, Edward J. Larson, An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science, ISBN 0300154089.
- Scott presumably foresaw this, which may explain his decision to geologize on the return trip once he lost priority at the pole.
- 1824, The British Critic