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metaphysicize, v.|mɛtəˈfɪzɪsaɪz|
[f. metaphysic + -ize.]
1. intr. To indulge in metaphysical speculation; to think, talk or write metaphysically. Also quasi-trans. with away: To get rid of by such studies. Hence metaˈphysicizing vbl. n.
1793Southey Let. to G. C. Bedford 26 Oct. in Life (1849) I. 185, I have been reading the history of philosophy..till I have metaphysicized away all my senses. 1796Coleridge Unpubl. Lett. to J. P. Estlin (1884) 18, I would write Odes and Sonnets morning and evening, and metaphysicize at noon. 1823De Quincey Walking Stewart Wks. 1858 VIII. 3 He was everlastingly metaphysicising against metaphysics. 1889J. M. Robertson Ess. Crit. Method 164 We are either witnessing a confusion of thought or a very subtle piece of metaphysicizing.
2. trans. To treat or expound metaphysically.
1830Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXVII. 943 Boscovich has metaphysicized matter, and shewn that there need be none... Others have metaphysicized vision. |