paleontologize

English

Alternative forms

  • paleontologise, palaeontologize, palaeontologise, palæontologize, palæontologise

Etymology

From paleontology +‎ -ize.

Verb

paleontologize (third-person singular simple present paleontologizes, present participle paleontologizing, simple past and past participle paleontologized)

  1. (intransitive) To study or practise paleontology.
    • [1846], Charles Darwin, “To J. D. Hooker”, in Francis Darwin, A. C. Seward, editors, More Letters of Charles Darwin: A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters, volume II, London: John Murray, published 1903, page 217:
      I am delighted thal you are in the field, geologising or palæontologising. I beg you to read the two Rogers’ account of the Coal-fields of N. America1; in my opinion they are eminently instructive and suggestive.
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