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botanise en · VERB
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of botanize.
We were incompetent to map the country we passed through, to chart the waters, to geologise, botanise, zoologise, astronomise, or to any other ise.
1906, James Barr, Laughing through a wilderness, page 261:He sleeps by day because to be awake in sunlight would be, for him, an irresistible temptation to botanise, zoologise, nephelologise, and do no work.
1992, Andro Linklater, Compton Mackenzie: A Life, page 265:This is a land of very great interest, even to those who do not specially botanise or 'zoologise.'
1931, Cambridge Public Library Record - Volume 3, Issue 11, page 90:
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