| 释义 |
geographize, v. rare.|dʒiːˈɒgrəfaɪz|
[f. geograph-y + -ize.]
a. intr. To study geography; to make geographical researches.
b. trans. To determine the geography of; to describe geographically; to reduce to geographical order. Hence geˈographizing ppl. a.
1818Southey in Life (1850) IV. 306 The amateur geographising ‘gentlemen of England who sit at home at ease’. 1870Athenæum 8 Oct. 470/3 By which time [1881] the Registrar-General will have completed two more decades of mortuary records..and these, with the one..which Mr. Haviland had geographized, will form a foundation for all future inquiry. 1886Bunbury in Encycl. Brit. XX. 96/1 Strabo was fully alive to the importance of the great rivers and mountain chains which (to use his own expressive phrase) ‘geographize’ a country. |