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