unphilosophize

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ philosophize

Verb[edit]

unphilosophize (third-person singular simple present unphilosophizes, present participle unphilosophizing, simple past and past participle unphilosophized)

  1. (transitive) To degrade from the character of a philosopher.
    • December 14, 1713, Alexander Pope, letter to Joseph Addison
      But we must return (thro' our very condition of being) to our narrow selves, and those things that affect our selves: our passions, our interests, flow in upon us, and unphilosophize us into meer mortals

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unphilosophize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)