English

Verb

Australize ‎(third-person singular simple present Australizes, present participle Australizing, simple past and past participle Australized)

1. 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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913