biologizev.

1850 Buchanan's Jrnl. Man Feb. 511 The use of the term Biologize [by Mr. Chauncey A. Burr] as a substitute for Mesmerize, is altogether unjustifiable.

1852 C. Sinclair Beatrice III. vi. 134 The very sameness and wearisomeness of a life here would..biologize my mind into idiotcy.

1854 L. Marsh Apocatastasis 49 He was in the habit of what we should call mesmerising, or biologizing, a certain boy.

1862 E. Bulwer-Lytton Strange Story I. iii. 26 A select few, whom he first fed and then biologized.

1896 Reformed Q. Rev. Oct. 530 The modern materialistic psychologists..dissect, and weigh, and biologize, and theorize, and deduce, until their poor brains reel.

1906 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 17 298 But the peculiarity of the coördination type of activity is that—if I may use the expression—it ‘biologizes’ consciousness.

1936 Jrnl. Relig. 16 258 We have biologized ourselves as products of natural drives... We have sociologized ourselves into a humanism of mutual aid.

1975 J. W. Bennett in S. Polgar Population, Ecol., & Social Evol. 296 Anthropology's failure to include some sort of value frame in its assessment of the course of cultural evolution is in part a consequence of the tendency to scientize—biologize—the cultural process.

1997 Jrnl. Personality Disorders 11 336 The challenge for the pharmacotherapist is to discriminate interpersonal from biologic pathologies, i.e., not to ‘biologize’ all behavior.

2002 R. J. Richards Romantic Conception Life ix. 311 In the jungles of South America..or the Mediterranean coasts of Sicily (where Haeckel sketched, poetized, and biologized)..scientists have directly experienced a pulsating, active, and value-charged nature.

1851 Monthly Jrnl. Med. Sci. May 487 The mere word uttered by the biologiser produces this and other strange effects.

1874 W. B. Carpenter Princ. Mental Physiol. (1876) 553 The relationship between the Biologizer and his ‘subject’.

1883 M. E. Boole Message Psychic Sci. 258 Stupid, idle, vacant-minded men or frivolous or self-indulgent women are the readiest victims of the biologiser.

1918 Bookman Feb. 655/2 The biologisers have run amuck in attempting to carry over into human institutions..the ‘survival of the fittest’ theory.

2000 C. Geertz Available Light ix. 198 If that miraculous cabbage, the brain itself, now appears to be more adequately understood.., then the same may be true of the mind with which biologizers so often confuse it.