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philosophized

philosophized is the simple past and past participle of philosophize.

Meaning of philosophize

Verb

philosophize (third-person singular simple present philosophizes, present participle philosophizing, simple past and past participle philosophized)

  1. To ponder or reason out philosophically.
    • The popular influence of the scientific specialist begins to rival that of the philosopher only when he ceases to be a specialist and commences to philosophize about the progress of his subject—and usually only after he has been taken up by the intellectuals for reasons which have little to do with...1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 424

Questions about philosophized

What is philosophized the simple past and past participle of?
Philosophized is the simple past and past participle of philosophize.

Words near philosophized in the dictionary

  1. philosophizability
  2. philosophizable
  3. philosophization
  4. philosophizations
  5. philosophize
  6. philosophized
  7. philosophizer
  8. philosophizers
  9. philosophizes
  10. philosophizing
  11. philosophizings

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