australize

English

Etymology

From 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

• “australize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.