zoologise

present singular third person zoologises · participle present zoologising · participle past zoologised · past zoologised

1. UKnonstandardNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of zoologize.

   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

   He sleeps by day because to be awake in sunlight would be, for him, an irresistible temptation to botanise, zoologise, nephelologise, and do no work.

   1992, Andro Linklater, Compton Mackenzie: A Life, page 265