metaphysicizev.

Brit.

/ˌmɛtəˈfɪzᵻsʌɪz/, U.S.

/ˌmɛdəˈfɪzəˌsaɪz/

Forms: 1700s– metaphysicize, 1800s metaphysicise.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: metaphysic n.¹, -ize suffix.

Etymology: < metaphysic n.¹ + -ize suffix.

Now rare.

†a. transitive. To get rid of or lose by excessive metaphysical studies. With away. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1793 R. Southey Let. 26 Oct. in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1849) I. 185 I have been reading the history of philosophy..till I have metaphysicized away all my senses.

b. intransitive. To indulge in metaphysical speculation; to think, talk, or write metaphysically.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > metaphysics > [verb (intransitive)]

metaphysicize?1796

?1796 S. T. Coleridge Lett. to J. P. Estlin (1884) 18 I would write Odes and Sonnets morning and evening, and metaphysicize at noon.

1823 T. De Quincey Walking Stewart in London Mag. Sept. 254/1 He was everlastingly metaphysicizing against metaphysics.

1844 Southern Literary Messenger 10 242/1 We find his soul, by way of making merry and carousing, begins to metaphysicize, in the following profound..stanzas.

1946 Philos. Rev. 55 585 Not even the professional metaphysicians can metaphysicize continually.

2. transitive. Chiefly Philosophy. To treat, explain, or expound metaphysically.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > metaphysics > [verb (transitive)]

metaphysic1782

metaphysicize1830

1830 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 27 943 Boscovich has metaphysicized matter, and shewn that there need be none... Others have metaphysicized vision.

1958 Philos. Rev. 67 510 ‘Potentiality’ is intended to metaphysicize the grammatical distinction of mode between what is and what can be.

1972 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 33 103 This notion..was expressed by the founding fathers like Franklin and Jefferson,..romanticized by Whitman, metaphysicized by Dewey, psychedelicized by Alan Ginsberg.

Derivatives

metaˈphysicizing n. metaphysical analysis or speculation.

ΚΠ

1889 J. M. Robertson Ess. Crit. Method 164 We are either witnessing a confusion of thought or a very subtle piece of metaphysicizing.

1958 Jrnl. Philos. 55 327 All of philosophy before him [sc. Hume] was one or another form of metaphysicizing.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	metaphysicize
释义	metaphysicizev. Brit. /ˌmɛtəˈfɪzᵻsʌɪz/, U.S. /ˌmɛdəˈfɪzəˌsaɪz/ Forms: 1700s– metaphysicize, 1800s metaphysicise. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: metaphysic n.¹, -ize suffix. Etymology: < metaphysic n.¹ + -ize suffix. Now rare. 1. †a. transitive. To get rid of or lose by excessive metaphysical studies. With away. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1793 R. Southey Let. 26 Oct. in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1849) I. 185 I have been reading the history of philosophy..till I have metaphysicized away all my senses. b. intransitive. To indulge in metaphysical speculation; to think, talk, or write metaphysically. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > metaphysics > [verb (intransitive)] metaphysicize?1796 ?1796 S. T. Coleridge Lett. to J. P. Estlin (1884) 18 I would write Odes and Sonnets morning and evening, and metaphysicize at noon. 1823 T. De Quincey Walking Stewart in London Mag. Sept. 254/1 He was everlastingly metaphysicizing against metaphysics. 1844 Southern Literary Messenger 10 242/1 We find his soul, by way of making merry and carousing, begins to metaphysicize, in the following profound..stanzas. 1946 Philos. Rev. 55 585 Not even the professional metaphysicians can metaphysicize continually. 2. transitive. Chiefly Philosophy. To treat, explain, or expound metaphysically. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > metaphysics > [verb (transitive)] metaphysic1782 metaphysicize1830 1830 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 27 943 Boscovich has metaphysicized matter, and shewn that there need be none... Others have metaphysicized vision. 1958 Philos. Rev. 67 510 ‘Potentiality’ is intended to metaphysicize the grammatical distinction of mode between what is and what can be. 1972 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 33 103 This notion..was expressed by the founding fathers like Franklin and Jefferson,..romanticized by Whitman, metaphysicized by Dewey, psychedelicized by Alan Ginsberg. Derivatives metaˈphysicizing n. metaphysical analysis or speculation. ΚΠ 1889 J. M. Robertson Ess. Crit. Method 164 We are either witnessing a confusion of thought or a very subtle piece of metaphysicizing. 1958 Jrnl. Philos. 55 327 All of philosophy before him [sc. Hume] was one or another form of metaphysicizing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1793
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