v. [f. as prec. + -IZE.]
1. trans. To make excursions to or about (a district, etc.). rare.
1827. Blackw. Mag., XXII. 555. Fixing your head-quarters in … Inverleithen, and excursionizing the whole country-side.
1861. Sat. Rev., XII. 489/1. This perverse system of excursionizing a building.
2. intr. To make, or go on, an excursion or excursions.
1866. Pall Mall Gaz., 27 Aug., 5/2. Most of the British Association people went out excursionizing on Saturday.
1881. Miss Braddon, Asphodel, III. 220. Edgar and Daphne had excursionised a little upon the nearest hillsides.
Hence Excursionizing vbl. sb.
1881. Miss Braddon, Asphodel, xxix. 328. There was more excursionising next day.
