"geologize" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1824, The British Critic",
          "text": "...those many valuable writers, who have unwisely lent their science to uphold and propagate the vicious doctrine of a chaotic geogeny, may geologize with full security...",
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          "ref": "1830, “Geology”, in American Quarterly Review",
          "text": "We travel here in an extraordinary manner, but we cannot geologize by steam-boats.",
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          "ref": "1864, Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth",
          "text": "There was a certain wood, which, by rising at early morn, and taking the cheap train, I could reach at eleven in the morning. Here I would botanize or geologize at my will.",
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        {
          "ref": "1869 March 27, The Spectator",
          "text": "...and ploughmen will botanize or geologize on their way home from their daily toil...",
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          "ref": "2007, Charles Kingsley, Madame How and Lady Why: First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children",
          "text": "And between the intervals of eating fruit, we will geologize on the way home, with this little bit of paper to show us where we are.",
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          "ref": "2011, Edward J. Larson, An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science",
          "text": "Scott presumably foresaw this, which may explain his decision to geologize on the return trip once he lost priority at the pole.",
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        "To study the geology of a location in the field."
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          "geology",
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        {
          "word": "geologise"
        }
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  "word": "geologize"
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          "ref": "1824, The British Critic",
          "text": "...those many valuable writers, who have unwisely lent their science to uphold and propagate the vicious doctrine of a chaotic geogeny, may geologize with full security...",
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          "text": "We travel here in an extraordinary manner, but we cannot geologize by steam-boats.",
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          "ref": "1864, Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth",
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          "text": "...and ploughmen will botanize or geologize on their way home from their daily toil...",
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          "ref": "2007, Charles Kingsley, Madame How and Lady Why: First Lessons in Earth Lore for Children",
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      "word": "geologise"
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  "word": "geologize"
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