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genealogize, v.|dʒɛniːˈælədʒaɪz, dʒiː-|
[f. as prec. + -ize.]
a. trans. To draw up a genealogy of.
b. intr. To trace the descent of persons or families; to make out genealogies.
1602Warner Alb. Eng. xiii. lxxvii. (1612) 318 How many pennes genealogize their Godheads from their bearthes? 1621Ainsworth Annot. Pentat., Num. i. 18 They declared their Genealogie, of what Tribe and family every man came: or, they were Genealogized, that is, were numbered. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. iii. vi. 68 Deucalion and Pyrrha; of whom men are wont to Mythologise and Genealogise. 1794T. Taylor Pausanias I. 341, I have perused..all that Cinæthon and Asius have genealogized in verse. 1837Southey Doctor IV. 44 Leaving, however, Sir William Gell to genealogize, if he pleases, as elaborately as he has topographized [etc.]. 1861F. Hall in Jrnl. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 147 If Professor Lassen had read, in Hiouen-Thsang, less than two pages after that in which Buddhagupta is genealogized, he would have seen reason [etc.].
Hence geneˈalogizing vbl. n.; geneˈalogizer.
1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry (1778) II. 178 note, In the same rage of genealogising, Alban..framed the Descent of Jesus Christ from Adam. 1775W. Buchanan Inq. Anc. Scot. Surnames (1820) 28 The more modern method of genealogising. 1846Grote Greece i. xi. I. 279 Two names..appear to be mere duplication..placed there by genealogisers for the purpose of filling up what seemed to them a chronological chasm. |