geologize

American  

[jee-ol-uh-jahyz] / dʒiˈɒl əˌdʒaɪz /

especially British, geologise

verb (used without object)

geologized, geologizing

1. to study geology.

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verb (used with object)

geologized, geologizing

1. to examine geologically.

geologize British  

/ dʒɪˈɒləˌdʒaɪz /

verb

1. to study the geological features of (an area)

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Etymology

Origin of geologize

First recorded in 1825–35; geolog(y) + -ize

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Example Sentences

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geologize geologized geologizing

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.

From Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley

Note 1.—Other words, kindred to the above, containing this root-form are: geometric, geometrical, geometrician, geographic, geologize, geologist.

From Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois by Elmer W. Cavins

But, although he was not hunting, the doctor had not time to geologize; he had to walk too quickly, in order to keep up with his friends.

From The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Edouard Riou

Here I would botanize or geologize at my will.

From A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

We continued travelling northward, in a zigzag line; sometimes stopping a day to geologize.

From The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin

In these walks young master botanized and geologized his own father, and Sir Charles gave him a little politics, history, and English poetry, in return.

From A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day by Charles Reade

I have, when botanizing and geologizing, walked my twelve or fifteen leagues a day for eight days in succession, carrying on my back a heavy bag loaded with plants or minerals.

From Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence by Louis Agassiz

My mother tells in her diary how in that summer of the birthday meeting, the two men roamed the country together, poetizing, botanizing, geologizing.

From Tennyson and His Friends by Various

Here, after having made a fire and pitched a tent in which to deposit wraps, provisions etc., the company dispersed in various directions along the shore, geologizing, botanizing, and collecting.

From Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence by Louis Agassiz

August 14.—I set out on a riding excursion, for the purpose of geologizing the basal parts of the Andes, which alone at this time of the year are not shut up by the winter snow.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various

Blake, who was now geologizing and doing topographical work, discovered several lignite seams in the hills on the east coast; he had finished his chart of the island.

From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Sir Douglas Mawson

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