geologize

present singular third person geologizes · participle present geologizing · participle past geologized · past geologized · alternative geologise

1. To study the geology of a location in the field.

   We continued northwards in a zigzag line; sometimes stopping a day to geologize.

   1839, Robert FitzRoy, Phillip Parker King, Charles Darwin, Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC

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   ...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...

   1824, The British Critic

   We travel here in an extraordinary manner, but we cannot geologize by steam-boats.

   1830, “Geology”, in American Quarterly Review

   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.

   1864, Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth

   ...and ploughmen will botanize or geologize on their way home from their daily toil...

   1869 March 27, The Spectator

   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.

   2007, Charles Kingsley, Madame How and Lady Why: First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children, →ISBN