physiologize

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English

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Etymology

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From physiology +‎ -ize.

Verb

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physiologize (third-person singular simple present physiologizes, present participle physiologizing, simple past and past participle physiologized)

  1. To speculate in physiology; to make physiological investigations.
    • 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: [] Richard Royston, [], →OCLC:
      But to pass from Pythagoras himself ; that Empedocles , who was a Pythagorean also , did physiologize atomically , is a thing that could hardly be doubted of

References

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physiologize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.