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

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 ]

‖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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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

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

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

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

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 ]

n. any of several species of lizards of the genus Crotaphytus and the family Iguanidae, of the central and western U.S. and northern Mexico, having long tails and usually bearing markings on the neck appearing like a collar of two black bands. RHUD [ PJC ]

n. the act or process of making something commercial in character. See commercialize. [ Also spelled commercialisation. ]
Syn. -- . [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the act of formulating or making a concept of something.
Syn. -- conceptualisation, formulation, formularizing, formularising. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. an elaborated concept.
Syn. -- conceptuality. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Fine Arts) (a) The act of making conventional. (b) The state of being conventional. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individuals of the same species. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Capable of being crystallized; that may be formed into crystals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. cristallization. ] 1. (Chem. & Min.) The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized; the formation of crystals. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The systems of crystallization are the several classes to which the forms are mathematically referable. They are most simply described according to the relative lengths and inclinations of certain assumed lines called axes; but the real distinction is the degree of symmetry characterizing them. 1. The Isometric system, or The Monometric system has the axes all equal, as in the cube, octahedron, etc. 2. The Tetragonal system, or The Dimetric system has a varying vertical axis, while the lateral are equal, as in the right square prism. 3. The Orthorhombic system, or The Trimetric system has the three axes unequal, as in the rectangular and rhombic prism. In this system, the lateral axes are called, respectively, macrodiagonal and brachydiagonal. -- The preceding are erect forms, the axes intersecting at right angles. The following are oblique. 4. The Monoclinic system, having one of the intersections oblique, as in the oblique rhombic prism. In this system, the lateral axes are called respectively, clinodiagonal and orthodiagonal. 5. The Triclinic system, having all the three intersections oblique, as in the oblique rhomboidal prism. There is also: 6. The Hexagonal system (one division of which is called Rhombohedral), in which there are three equal lateral axes, and a vertical axis of variable length, as in the hexagonal prism and the rhombohedron. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The Diclinic system, sometimes recognized, with two oblique intersections, is only a variety of the Triclinic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The action of decentralizing, or the state of being decentralized. “The decentralization of France.” J. P. Peters. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the act of changing to a decimal system; as, the decimalization of the British currency.
Syn. -- decimalisation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. démobilisation. See Mobilization. ] (Mil.) The disorganization or disarming of troops which have previously been mobilized or called into active service; the change from a war footing to a peace footing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. démoralisation. ] The act of corrupting or subverting morals. Especially: The act of corrupting or subverting discipline, courage, hope, etc., or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. dénationalisation. ] The act or process of denationalizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living.
Syn. -- detribalisation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. (Math.) able to be diagonalized; -- of a matrix. [ PJC ]

n. 1. the administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders.
Syn. -- digitalisation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the effect produced by the administraation of dititalis. [ PJC ]

prop. n. [ a proper name from the Hebrew, probably meaning “ God of the oath” or “ oath of God”. ] 1. Queen Elizabeth II. of the United Kingdom, born 1926.
Syn. -- Elizabeth II. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Elizabeth I., the Queen of England from 1558 to 1603. She was the daughter of Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn (1533-1603).
Syn. -- Elizabeth I. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

☞ Elizabeth was born at Greenwich, near London, Sept. 7, 1533: died at Richmond, near London, March 24, 1603. She reigned as Queen of England from 1558 to 1603. She was the daughter of Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn; was brought up in the Protestant faith; studied the classical languages under Roger Ascham; and is said to have been proficient in French and Italian. On her accession she appointed as secretary of state Sir William Cecil (later Baron Burleigh), who remained her chief adviser for forty years, until his death in 1598. She repealed the Roman Catholic legislation of the previous reign, reenacted the laws of Henry VIII. relating to the church, published the Thirty-nine Articles (1563), and completed the establishment of the Anglican Church. In 1564 she concluded the treaty of Troyes with France, by which she renounced her claims to Calais in consideration of 220, 000 crowns. In 1587 she signed the death-warrant of Mary Queen of Scots, who, expelled by a rebellion of her subjects, had taken refuge in England in 1568, and who, by means, it is said, of forged documents, had been involved by the government in a conspiracy of Savage, Ballard, Babington, and others against Queen Elizabeth. In 1588 her admiral Howard, assisted by Drake, Hawkins, Frobisher, Winter, and Raleigh defeated the Spanish Armada in the English Channel, and prevented an invasion of England. Her reign, which was one of commercial enterprise and of intellectual activity, was made illustrious by Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser, Bacon, and Ben Jonson. [ Century Dict. ]

3. Saint Elizabeth of Hungary; Born at Presburg, Hungary 1207, died died at Marburg, Germany, Nov. 19, 1231. She was a Hungarian princess, daughter of Andrew II. of Hungary, and wife of Louis, landgrave of Thuringia, celebrated for her sanctity. [ PJC ]

4. a city in Union County in northeastern New Jersy, pop. ca. 106, 000. It lies between Newark to the north and Linden to the south, and has a large port, regulated by the Port of New York Authority. It also contains most of the runway area of the Newark International Airport. [ PJC ]

prop. a. Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth I. or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature. -- n. One who lived in England in the time of Queen Elizabeth. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of equalizing, or state of being equalized. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their equalization with the rest of their fellow subjects. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An ethereal or spiritlike state. J. H. Stirling. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. The act of evangelizing; the state of being evangelized. [ 1913 Webster ]

The work of Christ's ministers is evangelization. Hobbes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. attributing to outside causes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. embodying in an outward form.
Syn. -- externalisation, exteriorization, exteriorisation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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

2. (Biol.) The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Close fertilization (Bot.), the fertilization of pistils by pollen derived from the stamens of the same blossom. --
Cross fertilization, fertilization by pollen from some other blossom. See under Cross, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of reducing to feudal tenure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act of finalizing.
Syn. -- finalisation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of focalizing or bringing to a focus, or the state of being focalized. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of reducing to a formula; the state of being formulized. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. fossilisation. ] The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. [ 1913 Webster ]

Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. généralisation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars. [ 1913 Webster ]

Generalization is only the apprehension of the one in the many. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A general inference. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a lizard having a long tail with black bands (Callisaurus draconoides), which lives in the deserts of the southwestern U. S. and Mexico; called also zebra-tailed lizard. RHUD [ PJC ]

n. medical care in a hospital; also, the period during which one receives care in a hospital.
Syn. -- hospital care. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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

2. (Fine Arts) The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A defense mechanism that splits something one is ambivalent about into two representations -- one good and one bad. [ wns=1 ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. something that exists only as an idea. [ wns=2 ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

5. a protrayal of something as ideal. [ wns=3 ]
Syn. -- glorification. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act or process of limiting movement or making incapable of movement; as, immobilization of the injured knee was necessary; the storm caused complete immobilization of the rescue team.
Syn. -- immobilizing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]