physiologize

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physiologize (third-person singular simple present physiologizes, present participle physiologizing, simple past and past participle physiologized)

To speculate in physiology; to make physiological investigations.
- 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
  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

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“physiologize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.