australize

English

Etymology

austral + -ize

Verb

australize (third-person singular simple present australizes, present participle australizing, simple past and past participle australized)

  1. (intransitive) To tend toward the south pole, as a magnet.
    • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudoloxia Epidemica:
      They [magnets] do septentrionate at one extreme, and australize at another.
    • 1922, Paul Fleury Mottelay, Bibliographical history of Electricity and Magnetism:
      A loadstone placed upon a small trencher of wood, floating on water, does instantly in one determinate point australize []

Antonyms

  • septentrionate

References

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