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单词 geographize
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geographizev.

Brit. /dʒɪˈɒɡrəfʌɪz/, /ˈdʒɒɡrəfʌɪz/, U.S. /dʒiˈɑɡrəˌfaɪz/
Forms: 1600s 1800s– geographize, 1800s– geographise.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: geography n., -ize suffix.
Etymology: < geography n. + -ize suffix.
1. transitive. To describe or analyse geographically; to express in geographical terms.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > [verb (transitive)]
geographize1870
1680 C. Blount in tr. Philostratus Life Apollonius Tyaneus ii. ix. 206 That Kingdom which was formerly ruled by Porus, is thus Geographiz'd by Strabo.
1837 London Med. Gaz. 22 Apr. 116/1 We can easily geographise, if allowed that expression, the progressive peregrination of all contagious diseases, with the precision of Dr. Hall's maps.
1870 Athenæum 8 Oct. 470/3 By which time [sc. 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.
1886 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.
1919 K. S. Guthrie Romance Two Cent. v. 325 Germany too had been geographized.
2008 J. O'Neill Netherland (2009) 28 Hans, this isn't a question of geography. You can't geographize this.
2. intransitive. To study or discuss geography; to make geographical researches. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > [verb (intransitive)]
geographize1814
1814 [see geographizing n. and adj. at Derivatives].
1868 F. Bunsen Mem. Baron Bunsen II. xv. 305 My father geographised with the General.

Derivatives

geˈographized adj.
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1919 K. S. Guthrie Romance Two Cent. v. 326 This geographized Iberiolusitania was a comparatively poor land.
1994 C. L. Greenhouse et al. Law & Community Three Amer. Towns ii. vi. 170 These are placeless arenas, of course,..merely geographized metaphors for particular instrumental social relationships.
2008 S. Shapiro Culture & Commerce Early Amer. Novel iv. 174 Configuring his coastal shift from Boston to Philadelphia as the geographized record of the historical transport between two societies.
geˈographizing n. and adj.
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1814 A. Smith tr. J. D. Michaelis Comm. Laws Moses I. ii. iii. 158 For as the Orientals in geographising, turn their faces to the east, so the north is on their left hand.
1818 R. Southey in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) IV. 306 The amateur geographising ‘gentlemen of England who sit at home at ease’.
1966 New Statesman 26 Aug. 283/1 Only the accident of superficial geographising..makes it possible to think of these two countries as part of the same lumpy spectrum: ‘Latin America’.
2003 D. Livingstone in A. Rogers & H. A. Viles Student's Compan. Geogr. (ed. 2) iv. xlvi. 282/1 Hence geographers—arguing for the prime significance of locale—increasingly call for the geographizing of social theory.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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