paleontologize

present singular third person paleontologizes · participle present paleontologizing · participle past paleontologized · past paleontologized · alternative paleontologise · alternative palaeontologize · alternative palaeontologise · alternative palæontologize · alternative palæontologise

1. intransitiveTo study or practise paleontology.

   I am delighted thal you are in the field, geologising or palæontologising. I beg you to read the two Rogers’ account of the Coal-fields of N. America¹; in my opinion they are eminently instructive and suggestive.

   [1846], Charles Darwin, “To J. D. Hooker”, in Francis Darwin, A. C. Seward, editors, More Letters of Charles Darwin: A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters, volume II, London: John Murray, published 1903, page 217