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单词 archaeologize
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archaeologizev.

Brit. /ˌɑːkɪˈɒlədʒʌɪz/, U.S. /ˌɑrkiˈɑləˌdʒaɪz/
Forms: 1700s– archaeologise, 1700s– archaeologize, 1700s 1900s– archeologise, 1900s– archeologize.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: archaeology n., -ize suffix.
Etymology: < archaeology n. + -ize suffix.
1. transitive. To cause (something) to seem ancient or archaic; to add ancient or archaeological elements to (something). rare.
ΚΠ
1783 St. James's Chron. 7–9 Jan. You have archæologized some of Chatterton's Miscellanies, and tell us that we shall think we are reading a Chorus in Ella or Goodwyn.
1884 Earl of Lytton in 19th Cent. Dec. 886 The attempt to archæologise the Shakespearean drama is one of the stupidest pedantries of this age of prigs.
1994 M. Neill in W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (Oxf. World's Classics) 133 The theatrical attempts to archaeologize the play..reached their disastrous apogee in the spectacular nineteenth-century productions that boasted their pedigree from ‘the splendid Collection of Roman and Egyptian Antiquities in the British Museum’.
2. intransitive. To carry out archaeological excavation or research; to practise archaeology. Also transitive: to carry out archaeological investigation of (a place, object, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > history [verb (intransitive)] > study or practise archaeology
dig1740
archaeologize1874
excave1884
trial trench1947
excavate1957
the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > history [verb (transitive)] > practise archaeology
dig1743
excavate1840
archaeologize1874
1874 Sat. Rev. 22 Aug. 244/1 Where archæologists go, they go, but they do not archæologize.
1914 T. E. Lawrence Let. 28 Feb. (1938) 165 He forbade Newcombe to map, and me to photograph or archaeologise. I photographed what I could, I archaeologised everywhere.
1959 Pasadena (Calif.) Independent 13 Apr. 17/2 Steve snagged a strictly non-Hollywood Fulbright Fellowship in archaeology, will spend a year archaeologizing Athens.
1999 Observer 29 Aug. (Life Mag.) 49 I spent half a blissful day on my knees with a pointing trowel, archeologising like mad, and uncovered enough segments to make up four complete tiles.
2001 Independent 17 Mar. (Mag.) 29/2 Proof would come from anthropologists..archaeologising sites of ancient or prehistoric tribal habitation.

Derivatives

archaeˈologizing adj. and n. (a) adj. that archaeologizes (in either sense); that carries out archaeological investigation; (b) n. the practice of conducting archaeological investigation.
ΚΠ
1828 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 336/1 This truth ought to be a warning to archæologizing essay-smiths who manufacture modern keys to ancient locks, and claim great credit for talent superior to us antiquaries.
1880 Glasgow Herald 10 Aug. 6/2 A Turkish servant..accompanies him or any of his friends who wish to go shooting or archæologising in the mountains.
1919 Bull. Metrop. Mus. Art 14 82/1 In the Rome of the day, full as it was of ardently archaeologizing sojourners from everywhere, the idea took root.
2013 Western Mail (Cardiff) (Nexis) 20 July Anna is an amateur naturalist, with a yen for archaeologising.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).
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