astronomizev.
/əˈstrɒnəmʌɪz/, U.S. /əˈstrɑnəˌmaɪz/ intransitive. To pursue astronomy; to observe the night sky; (also) to act or speak astronomically.
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a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) ii. 89 Thus they Astronomiz'd in Caves.
1690 T. Burnet Rev. Theory of Earth 44 It is a great question..whether Moses did either philosophize or astronomize in that description.
1801 T. Taylor tr. Aristotle Metaphysics xiii. ii. 305 He who, like the Coryphæus in the Theætetus of Plato is able to astronomize above the heavens (τον ουρανον ὑπεραστρονομουντες).
1848 H. Rogers Ess. I. vi. 311 Thales..astronomising as he walked.
1919 K. Preston Types Pan 39 I lie supine upon my back When I astronomize; The blissful ignoramus prone Can con the starry skies.
1993 Computing 24 June 16/5 Until and unless there was proof positive, let the theologians theologise and let the astronomers astronomise.
2004 L. Ferlinghetti Americus I. iii. 10 Dante's Paradiso ‘the place where all is light’ a place that surely must exist in the farthest reaches of sky (as Heinrich Olbers later astronomized).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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