Crossword clues for philosophize
philosophize
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
philosophize \phi*los"o*phize\ (f[i^]*l[o^]s"[-o]*f[imac]z), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Philosophized (f[i^]*l[o^]s"[-o]*f[imac]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. hilosophizing (f[i^]*l[o^]s"[-o]*f[imac]`z[i^]ng).] To reason like a philosopher; to search into the reason and nature of things; to investigate phenomena, and assign rational causes for their existence.
Man philosophizes as he lives. He may philosophize well
or ill, but philosophize he must.
--Sir W.
Hamilton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from philosophy + -ize. Related: Philosophized; philosophizing. The earlier verb was simply philosophy (late 14c.).
Wiktionary
alt. To philosophically ponder or reason out. vb. To philosophically ponder or reason out.
WordNet
v. reason philosophically [syn: philosophise]
Usage examples of "philosophize".
Holy Scriptures, philosophize over them, and expound their literal sense by allegory.
Boboko was infinitely superior, even if he tended to play on his own Gypsylike mystique and philosophize too much.
The action, such as it was, revolved around the Emperor Drone-on, played by Laevo himself, whose long-winded speeches invariably descended from pompous philosophizing into downright idiocy, while at the same time managing to ridicule all those around him.
King could not help wondering how all this curious life would strike Irene--he put his lonesomeness and longing in this way--and what she would say about it, he endeavored to divert his mind by a study of the conditions, and by some philosophizing on the change that had come over American summer life within a few years.
Darwin was philosophizing on here was how the first living cell might have been formed out of inorganic matter.
For the most part, they received it by tradition as a fact, without much philosophizing, that, in consequence of the sin of Adam, all men were doomed to die, that is, to leave their bodies and descend into the shadowy realm of death.
She was not troubled by the slightest tincture of modesty, but philosophized on coition as coolly and much more learnedly than Hedvig.
An hour or so will be involved in the arm chair philosophizing about the role of the antecedents and consequences.
Their thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a recognition, a remembering, a return and a homecoming to a remote, primordial, an inclusive houschold of the soul, out of which those concepts grew originall: philosophizing is to this extent a kind of atavism of the highest order.
Then, lastly, as each of these sects may be adhered to either by men who love a life of ease, as those who have through choice or necessity addicted themselves to study, or by men who love a busy life, as those who, while philosophizing, have been much occupied with state affairs and public business, or by men who choose a mixed life, in imitation of those who have apportioned their time partly to erudite leisure, partly to necessary business: by these differences the number of the sects is tripled, and becomes 288.
These words of mine may make poor philosophizing, but that cannot be said of my proofs of the linguistic genesis of mathematical concepts, of the fact, in other words, that those concepts arose neither from the enumerability of things nor from the cleverness of reason.
And the Indian gymnosophists, who are said to philosophize in the solitudes of India in a state of nudity, are its citizens.
For speech depends upon an inner, intelligent human activity, which, once learnt, becomes a lasting part of man's being, quite outside the realm of his philosophizing consciousness, and yet forming an indispensable instrument for this consciousness.
Calvin Miller had a brother who philosophized about knacks and said they weren’t from the Devil.
Influenced by the gaggle of Logical Positivist Thinkers he found there (I have never had much time for Philosophizing myself), Gö.