v. [f. ZOOLOGY or ZOOLOGIST: see -IZE.]
1. intr. To study zoology practically; to seek and examine animals zoologically. (Cf. botanize.)
1861. Geikie, E. Forbes, ix. 267. He had botanized and zoologized … from the Shetlands to the Channel Isles.
1890. Romanes, in Life & Lett. (1896), 256. I have just heard that Charles Lister … has died of fever in Brazil, where he was zoologising.
2. trans. To study, explore, or treat zoologically.
1865. Kingsley, Herew., i. Not to him, as to us, a world … circumscribed, mapped, botanised, zoologised.
Hence Zoologizing vbl. sb. (also attrib.).
1867. Geo. Eliot, in Cross, Life (1885), III. 20. Giving up zoologising for the present.
1876. Smiles, Sc. Natur., xiv. 290. On a zoologising excursion.
