zoologized, adj.

zoologized
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# zoologizedadjective

## Factsheet

### Where does the adjective zoologized come from?

Earliest known use

1860s

The earliest known use of the adjective zoologized is in the 1860s.

OED's earliest evidence for zoologized is from 1865, in the writing of Charles Kingsley, novelist, Church of England clergyman, and controversialist.

### Nearby entries

1. zoolite, n. 1768–
2. zoologer, n. 1663–
3. zoologic, adj. 1766–
4. zoological, adj. & n. 1686–
5. zoological garden, n. 1827–
6. zoologically, adv. 1799–
7. zoologico-, comb. form
8. zoologico-archaeologist, n. 1864
9. zoologist, n. 1663–
10. zoologize, v. 1830–
11. zoologized, adj.1865–
12. zoologizing, n. 1815–
13. zoology, n. 1663–
14. zoom, n. 1917–
15. zoom, v.¹ 1886–
16. Zoom, v.² 2014–
17. zoom, int. 1856–
18. zoomable, adj. 1972–
19. zoomagnetism, n. 1824–
20. zooman, n. 1871–
21. zoomancy, n. 1888–

## Meaning & use

1. 1865–
   See zoologize v.
   Stressed as zoˈologized.
   1. 1865

      > Not to him, as to us, a world..circumscribed, mapped, botanized, zoologized.

      C. Kingsley, Hereward i, in Good Words January 14/1
   2. 1884

      > A thousand years ago..the world was not all the geologized, botanized, zoologized and mapped out earthly ball it is now.

      Sioux County (Iowa) Herald 31 July
   3. 1955

      > Plummer's Island—one of the most intensively botanized, zoologized, ecologized wild islands in the world.

      R. T. Peterson & J. Fisher, Wild Amer. (1997) v. 51
   4. 2009

      > Visual art, literature and science contributed to defining a zoologized stereotype of the brigand.

      Quaderni Fiorentini 1933

Originally published as part of the entry for zoologize, v.

zoologize, v. was revised in June 2017.