v. [f. as prec. + -IZE.] intr. To study entomology; to collect specimens, or observe the habits, of insects.
1815. W. Taylor, in Robberds, Mem., II. 455. The engineer … is not to lose his time in zoologizing, entomologizing, [etc.].
1828. J. M. Herbert, in Darwin’s Life & Lett. (1887), I. 168. On these occasions Darwin entomologised most industriously.
1849. Kingsley, in Life (1877), I. 211. It is too … wet for entomologising.
