geologise

present singular third person geologises · participle present geologising · participle past geologised · past geologised

1. alternativeAlternative form of geologize.

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

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

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   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.

   1834, Victor Jacquemont, Letters from India