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Definition of Botanises
1. botanise [v] - See also: botanise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Botanises
Literary usage of Botanises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies of a Biographer by Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"It is the state of mind in which his imaginary man of science botanises on his
mother's grave ; picks the flowers to pieces and drops the sentiment. ..."
2. The Romantic Movement in English Poetry by Arthur Symons (1909)
"Crabbe was the botanist and geologist of the rockier strata of men and of the
weeds and grasses of nature. He botanises among the ..."
3. Narrative of a Journey Round the Dead Sea and in the Bible Lands in 1850 and by Édouard de Warren (1854)
"The Abbé also botanises with reasonable success. During our meal two tourists,
one of them a Frenchman, and the other a Swiss, have established themselves ..."
4. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1831)
"... those described by Wordsworth, — Who peeps and botanises upon his mother's
grave." " A prying slave, 03- ART. III. ..."
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