australize
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australize (third-person singular simple present australizes, present participle australizing, simple past and past participle australized)
- (intransitive) To tend toward the south pole, as a magnet.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudoloxia Epidemica:
- They [magnets] do septentrionate at one extreme, and australize at another.
- 1922, Paul Fleury Mottelay, Bibliographical history of Electricity and Magnetism:
- A loadstone placed upon a small trencher of wood, floating on water, does instantly in one determinate point australize […]
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- “australize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.