australize
verbUK /ˈɔːs.trə.laɪz/
Etymology From austral + -ize.
1
To tend toward the south pole, as a magnet.
- They [magnets] do septentrionate at one extreme, and australize at another.1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudoloxia Epidemica:
- A loadstone placed upon a small trencher of wood, floating on water, does instantly in one determinate point australize […]1922, Paul Fleury Mottelay, Bibliographical history of Electricity and Magnetism:
- Antonyms
- septentrionate