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
- zoolite, n.1768–
- zoologer, n.1663–
- zoologic, adj.1766–
- zoological, adj. & n.1686–
- zoological garden, n.1827–
- zoologically, adv.1799–
- zoologico-, comb. form
- zoologico-archaeologist, n.1864
- zoologist, n.1663–
- zoologize, v.1830–
- zoologized, adj.1865–
- zoologizing, n.1815–
- zoology, n.1663–
- zoom, n.1917–
- zoom, v.¹1886–
- Zoom, v.²2014–
- zoom, int.1856–
- zoomable, adj.1972–
- zoomagnetism, n.1824–
- zooman, n.1871–
- zoomancy, n.1888–
1865–
Stressed as zoˈologized.
1865
Not to him, as to us, a world..circumscribed, mapped, botanized, zoologized.
C. Kingsley, Hereward i, in Good Words January 14/1
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
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
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.
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