zoologizev.
/zuːˈɒlədʒʌɪz/, /zəʊˈɒlədʒʌɪz/, U.S. /zuˈɑləˌdʒaɪz/, /zoʊˈɑləˌdʒaɪz/ 1. transitive. To give a zoological character to; to present or treat as animal-like; to consider in zoological terms; (also) to treat (a subject, question, etc.) in a zoological manner.
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1830 Spectator 7 Aug. 592/1 He [sc. Landseer] zoologizes mankind.
1893 Rev. of Reviews Dec. 620/1 M. Renan attempted a natural history of religions. De Lisle zoologised poetry.
1912 Med. Council Dec. 437/2 Sex psychology may be over-emphasized..or even zoölogized.
1999 M. J. Hall tr. L. S. Vygotsky in R. W. Rieber & D. K. Robbins Coll. Wks. L. S. Vygotsky VI. i. 5 The..danger of zoologizing child psychology.
2001 Hudson Rev. 54 26 If other novelists are sometimes guilty of anthropomorphizing animals, Dreiser..indulges in zoologizing human beings.
2. intransitive. To engage in the study of zoology; esp. to look for animals in their natural habitats for the purpose of recording or studying them zoologically. Also occasionally transitive: to record or study (an animal or animals) zoologically; to record or study the fauna of (an area). Cf. botanize v.
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the world > animals > zoology > study zoology practically [verb (intransitive)]
zoologize1852
the world > animals > zoology > study or treat zoologically [verb (transitive)]
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1852 Naturalist 2 217 ‘Zoologizing’ in Black Park, Bucks., (a place dear to London Entomologists,) in company with my late lamented friend.
1861 A. Geikie Mem. E. Forbes ix. 267 He had botanized and zoologized..from the Shetlands to the Channel Isles.
1890 G. J. Romanes in Life & Lett. (1896) 256 I have just heard that Charles Lister..has died of fever in Brazil, where he was zoologising.
1901 Brainerd (Minnesota) Daily Disp. 14 Dec. 7/6 To Zanzibar to zoologize zebras.
1911 Alton (Illinois) Evening Tel. 30 May 8/3 While he is farming he zoologizes, and while he is zoologizing he is farming.
1961 Chapters Western Civilization (ed. 3) II. 257 Country gentlemen botanized and zoologized in the same spirit that they hunted and rode.
2004 Jrnl. Hist. Biol. 37 209 We do follow Darwin as he travels across the world..zoologizing.
2007 W. J. Mitsch & J. G. Gosselink Wetlands (ed. 4) xii. 378 You resist the ever-present temptation to over-engineer, over-botanize, or over-zoologize the wetlands.
Derivatives
zoˈologized adj.
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1865 C. Kingsley Hereward i, in Good Words Jan. 14/1 Not to him, as to us, a world..circumscribed, mapped, botanized, zoologized.
1884 Sioux County (Iowa) Herald 31 July A thousand years ago..the world was not all the geologized, botanized, zoologized and mapped out earthly ball it is now.
1955 R. T. Peterson & J. Fisher Wild Amer. (1997) v. 51 Plummer's Island—one of the most intensively botanized, zoologized, ecologized wild islands in the world.
2009 Quaderni Fiorentini 1933 Visual art, literature and science contributed to defining a zoologized stereotype of the brigand.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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