zoologise

English

Verb

zoologise (third-person singular simple present zoologises, present participle zoologising, simple past and past participle zoologised)

1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of zoologize.
   • 1834, Victor Jacquemont, Letters from India:

     I shall herbarise, geologise, or zoologise at their head if the opportunity occurs, and, with my bags filled, I will return upon the same horse as if the devil was at my heels; for it will then be twelve o'clock, and I shall have eaten nothing, after having been nearly fifteen hours on horseback, on foot, and in the mud and rain.

   • 1906, James Barr, Laughing through a wilderness, page 261:

     We were incompetent to map the country we passed through, to chart the waters, to geologise, botanise, zoologise, astronomise, or to any other ise.

   • 1992, Andro Linklater, Compton Mackenzie: A Life, page 265:

     He sleeps by day because to be awake in sunlight would be, for him, an irresistible temptation to botanise, zoologise, nephelologise, and do no work.

Anagrams

• zoologies, zoölogies