He prefers to frolic and philosophise with his prodigy on the sands.
He is only in a quite secondary sense the animal who can philosophise.
It is but right to add that he did not philosophise much on the subject.
But when death comes into a household, we do not philosophise—we only feel.
But Margaret did not attempt to philosophise upon the matter.
And you philosophise to me on the necessity of buying food and getting into flesh.
To philosophise his repulsive subject-matter was the author's ambition.
To philosophise on that teaching of Scripture is not my business here.
Do not philosophise in that ridiculous way; don't you see I am suffering agonies?
And why should one philosophise in a book that will never be read?
1590s, from philosophy + -ize. Related: Philosophized; philosophizing. The earlier verb was simply philosophy (late 14c.).