n. A making actual or really existent; giving the appearance of reality. [ R. ] Emerson.
Syn. -- realization, realisation. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To make actual; to realize in action. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. changed from potential to actual; as, saw his worst fears actualized.
Syn. -- realized [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To give the force or form of an adverb to. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. alcoolisation. ] 1. The act of reducing a substance to a fine or impalpable powder. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act rectifying spirit. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Saturation with alcohol; putting the animal system under the influence of alcoholic liquor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Alcoholized p. pr. & vb. n. Alcoholizing. ] [ Cf. F. alcooliser. ] 1. To reduce to a fine powder. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To convert into alcohol; to rectify; also, to saturate with alcohol. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Perh. fr. Ar. 'açārah juice extracted from a plant, fr. 'açara to press. ] (Com.) The madder of the Levant. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. alizarine, fr. alizari. ] (Chem.) A coloring principle, C14H6O2(OH)2, found in madder, and now produced artificially as an an orange-red crystalline compound from anthracene. It is used in making red pigments (such as the Turkish reds), and in dyeing. [ 1913 Webster WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Alkaline. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To alkalizate. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. alcalisation. ] The act of rendering alkaline by impregnating with an alkali; a conferring of alkaline qualities. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Alkalized p. pr. & vb. n. Alkalizing ] [ Cf. F. alcaliser. ] To render alkaline; to communicate the properties of an alkali to. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To raise to the state of an angel; to render angelic. [ 1913 Webster ]

It ought not to be our object to angelize, nor to brutalize, but to humanize man. W. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. animalisation. ] 1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Animalized p. pr. & vb. n. Animalizing. ] [ Cf. F. animaliser. ] 1. To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To convert into animal matter by the processes of assimilation. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize. [ 1913 Webster ]

The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To record in annals. Sheldon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol.) The process of converting venous blood into arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; -- called also aëration and hematosis. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Arterialized; p. pr. & vb. n. Arterializing. ] To transform, as the venous blood, into arterial blood by exposure to oxygen in the lungs; to make arterial. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To render artificial. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make resemble. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

If I was a philosopher, says Montaigne, I would naturalize art instead of artilizing nature. Bolingbroke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Asexual + -ize + -ation. ] The act or process of sterilizing an animal or human being, as by vasectomy. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. [ See Austral. ] To tend toward the south pole, as a magnet. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They [ magnets ] do septentrionate at one extreme, and australize at another. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. balise; cf. Sp. balisa. ] A pole or a frame raised as a sea beacon or a landmark. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bestialized p. pr. & vb. n. Bestializing. ] To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize. [ 1913 Webster ]

The process of bestializing humanity. Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Blaze to flash. Formerly, in local use, a rattling volley; cf. “to blaze away” to fire away. ] A gale of piercingly cold wind, usually accompanied with fine and blinding snow; a furious blast. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Brutalized p. pr. & vb. n. Brutalizing. ] [ Cf. F. brutaliser. ] To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He mixed . . . with his countrymen, brutalized with them in their habits and manners. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Cf. F. cabaliser. ] To use cabalistic language. [ R ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. 1. to provide with a canal, as of a city.
Syn. -- canal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. to to direct the flow of; -- also used abstractly, as of money or information.
Syn. -- channel. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. to eat human flesh.
Syn. -- practice cannibalism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. to use parts of (something, such as a machine), to repair something else.
Syn. -- use parts of. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. & t. same as cannibalise. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. The act or process of capitalizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Capitalized p. pr. & vb. n. Capitalizing. ] 1. To convert into capital, or to use as capital. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To compute, appraise, or assess the capital value of (a patent right, an annuity, etc.) [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To print in capital letters, or with an initial capital. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To supply capital for (an enterprise), especially by selling capital stock. [ PJC ]

v. t. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes. [ PJC ]

v. t. 1 to to convert [ usu. sugar ] into caramel, by the action of heat.
Syn. -- caramelise. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. (Med.) To apply carbolic acid to; to wash or treat with carbolic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To exalt to the office of a cardinal. Sheldon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Carnalized p. pr. & vb. n. Carnalizing. ] To make carnal; to debase to carnality. [ 1913 Webster ]

A sensual and carnalized spirit. John Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make celestial. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. centralisation. ] The act or process of centralizing, or the state of being centralized; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole; as, the centralization of power in the general government; the centralization of commerce in a city. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Centralized p. pr. & vb. n. Centralizing. ] [ Cf. F. centraliser. ] To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ To ] centralize the power of government. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority; as, centralized control of emergency relief efforts; centralized government. Opposite of decentralized. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. concentrated on or clustered around a central point or purpose; -- contrasting with distributed.
Syn. -- centered, centred, focused. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. prenom. causing to concentrate at a center. Opposite of decentralizing. [ Narrower terms: centripetal, unifying(prenominal) ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Domination of the head in animal life as expressed in the physical structure; localization of important organs or parts in or near the head, in animal development. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being civilized. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. civilisation. ] 1. The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners, and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles -- . . . the spirit of a gentleman, and spirit of religion. Burke [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Rendering a criminal process civil. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Civilized p. pr. & vb. n. Civilizing. ] [ Cf. F. civilizer, fr.L. civilis civil. See Civil. ] 1. To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet blest that fate which did his arms dispose
Her land to civilize, as to subdue. Dryden [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To admit as suitable to a civilized state. [ Obs. or R. ] “Civilizing adultery.” Milton.

Syn. -- To polish; refine; humanize. [ 1913 Webster ]