zoologize, v.
(zəʊˈɒlədʒaɪz)
[f. zoology or zoologist: see -ize.]
1. intr. To study zoology practically; to seek and examine animals zoologically. (Cf. botanize.)
| 1861 Geikie E. Forbes ix. 267 He had botanized and zoologized..from the Shetlands to the Channel Isles. 1890 Romanes in Life & Lett. (1896) 256, I have just heard that Charles Lister..has died of fever in Brazil, where he was zoologising. |
2. trans. To study, explore, or treat zoologically.
| 1865 Kingsley Herew. i, Not to him, as to us, a world..circumscribed, mapped, botanised, zoologised. |
Hence zoˈologizing vbl. n. (also attrib.).
| 1815 [see entomologize v.]. 1867 Geo. Eliot in Cross Life (1885) III. 20 Giving up zoologising for the present. 1876 Smiles Sc. Natur. xiv. 290 On a zoologising excursion. |