Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To study geometry.
  • intransitive verb To apply the methods of geometry.
  • intransitive verb To present in geometric form.
  • intransitive verb To bring into conformance with the laws and principles of geometry.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To form geometrically or according to geometrical principles.
  • To solve geometrical problems; speculate geometrically; practise geometry.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To investigate or apprehend geometrical quantities or laws; to make geometrical constructions; to proceed in accordance with the principles of geometry.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb intransitive To study or use geometry
  • verb transitive To convert to geometrical form

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Examples

  • The pleasure a palace or a temple gives the eye, is, that an order and method has been communicated to stones, so that they speak and geometrize, become tender or sublime with expression.

    XVIII. Essays. Beauty. 1860 1909

  • Not only does nature everywhere geometrize, but she does so in a particular way, in which we discover dimensional sequences.

    Four-Dimensional Vistas Claude Fayette Bragdon 1906

  • The pleasure a palace or a temple gives the eye, is, that an order and method has been communicated to stones, so that they speak and geometrize, become tender or sublime with expression.

    The Conduct of Life (1860) 1856

  • The science of no man can be characteristic, no man can geometrize or chemically analyze after a manner peculiar to himself.

    The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

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