Physiologize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To speculate in physiology; to make physiological investigations.

    "But to pass from Pythagoras himself ; that Empedocles , who was a Pythagorean also , did physiologize atomically , is a thing that could hardly be doubted of"

Example

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"But to pass from Pythagoras himself ; that Empedocles , who was a Pythagorean also , did physiologize atomically , is a thing that could hardly be doubted of"

Etymology

From physiology + -ize.

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