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emphasizing
(mass) | emphasizing
- vyzdvihovanie, zdôrazňovanie |
evangelizing
(mass) | evangelizing
- evanjelizovanie |
galvanizing
(mass) | galvanizing
- vzrušujúci |
mesmerizing
(mass) | mesmerizing
- očarujúci |
organizing
(mass) | organizing
- organizačný |
patronizing
(mass) | patronizing
- podporujúci, podporovanie |
synchronizing
(mass) | synchronizing
- synchronizácia |
Acclimatizing
(gcide) | Acclimatize \Ac*cli"ma*tize\ ([a^]k`kl[imac]"m[.a]*t[imac]z), v.
t. [imp. & p. p. Acclimatized
([a^]k`kl[imac]"m[.a]*t[imac]zd); p. pr. & vb. n.
Acclimatizing ([a^]k`kl[imac]"m[.a]*t[imac]`z[i^]ng).]
To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which
is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or
strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or
plants.
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Achromatizing
(gcide) | Achromatize \A*chro"ma*tize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Achromatized; p. pr. & vb. n. Achromatizing.] [Gr. 'a
priv. + ? color.]
To deprive of color; to make achromatic. [Also spelled
achromatise.]
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Aggrandizing
(gcide) | Aggrandize \Ag"gran*dize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Aggrandized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Aggrandizing.] [F. agrandir; [`a] (L. ad) +
grandir to increase, L. grandire, fr. grandis great. See
Grand, and cf. Finish.]
1. To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize
our conceptions, authority, distress.
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2. To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth;
-- applied to persons, countries, etc.
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His scheme for aggrandizing his son. --Prescott.
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3. To make appear great or greater; to exalt. --Lamb.
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Syn: To augment; exalt; promote; advance.
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agonizing
(gcide) | agonizing \agonizing\ adj.
causing agony. Opposite to painless.
Syn: excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous,
torturesome.
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]Agonize \Ag"o*nize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Agonized; p. pr. &
vb. n. Agonizing.] [F. agoniser, LL. agonizare, fr. Gr. ?.
See Agony.]
1. To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.
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To smart and agonize at every pore. --Pope.
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2. To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.
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Agonizing
(gcide) | agonizing \agonizing\ adj.
causing agony. Opposite to painless.
Syn: excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous,
torturesome.
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]Agonize \Ag"o*nize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Agonized; p. pr. &
vb. n. Agonizing.] [F. agoniser, LL. agonizare, fr. Gr. ?.
See Agony.]
1. To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.
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To smart and agonize at every pore. --Pope.
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2. To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.
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Agonizingly
(gcide) | Agonizingly \Ag"o*ni`zing*ly\, adv.
With extreme anguish or desperate struggles.
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Albumenizing
(gcide) | Albumenize \Al*bu"men*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Albumenized;
p. pr. & vb. n. Albumenizing.]
To cover or saturate with albumen; to coat or treat with an
albuminous solution; as, to albumenize paper.
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Alcoholizing
(gcide) | Alcoholize \Al"co*hol*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alcoholized;
p. pr. & vb. n. Alcoholizing.] [Cf. F. alcooliser.]
1. To reduce to a fine powder. [Obs.] --Johnson.
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2. To convert into alcohol; to rectify; also, to saturate
with alcohol.
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Alkalizing
(gcide) | Alkalize \Al"ka*lize\ ([a^]l"k[.a]*l[imac]z), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Alkalized ([a^]l"k[.a]*l[imac]zd); p. pr. & vb. n.
Alkalizing ([a^]l"k[.a]*l[imac]`z[i^]ng).] [Cf. F.
alcaliser.]
To render alkaline; to communicate the properties of an
alkali to.
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Allegorizing
(gcide) | Allegorize \Al"le*go*rize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Allegorized;
p. pr. & vb. n. Allegorizing.] [Cf. F. all['e]goriser, fr.
L. allegorizare.]
1. To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the
history of a people.
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2. To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical
sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood
literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative
sense is said to allegorize it.
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Americanizing
(gcide) | Americanize \A*mer"i*can*ize\ ([.a]*m[~e]r"[i^]*kan*[imac]z), v.
t. [imp. & p. p. Americanizer; p. pr. & vb. n.
Americanizing.]
To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in
customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.
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Anathematizing
(gcide) | Anathematize \A*nath"e*ma*tize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Anathematized; p. pr. & vb. n. Anathematizing.] [L.
anathematizare, Gr. ? to devote, make accursed: cf. F.
anath['e]matiser.]
To pronounce an anathema against; to curse. Hence: To condemn
publicly as something accursed. --Milton.
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Anatomizing
(gcide) | Anatomize \A*nat"o*mize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Anatomized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Anatomizing.] [Cf. F. anatomiser.]
1. To dissect; to cut in pieces, as an animal vegetable body,
for the purpose of displaying or examining the structure
and use of the several parts.
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2. To discriminate minutely or carefully; to analyze.
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If we anatomize all other reasonings of this nature,
we shall find that they are founded on the relation
of cause and effect. --Hume.
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Anglicizing
(gcide) | Anglicize \An"gli*cize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Anglicized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Anglicizing.]
To make English; to English; to anglify; render conformable
to the English idiom, or to English analogies.
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Animalizing
(gcide) | Animalize \An"i*mal*ize\, 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.
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2. To convert into animal matter by the processes of
assimilation.
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3. To render animal or sentient; to reduce to the state of a
lower animal; to sensualize.
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The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the
animalizing tendency of his own philosophy.
--Coleridge.
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Apologizing
(gcide) | Apologize \A*pol"o*gize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Apologized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Apologizing.] [Cf. F. apologiser.]
1. To make an apology or defense. --Dr. H. More.
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2. To make an apology or excuse; to make acknowledgment of
some fault or offense, with expression of regret for it,
by way of amends; -- with for; as, my correspondent
apologized for not answering my letter.
Syn: apologize, excuse, justify, rationalize
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To apologize for his insolent language. --Froude.
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Apostatizing
(gcide) | Apostatize \A*pos"ta*tize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Apostatized;
p. pr. & vb. n. Apostatizing.] [LL. apostatizare.]
To renounce totally a religious belief once professed; to
forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or
the party to which one has previously adhered.
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He apostatized from his old faith in facts, took to
believing in ?emblances. --Carlyle.
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Appetizing
(gcide) | Appetizing \Ap"pe*ti`zing\, adv.
So as to excite appetite.
[1913 Webster]Appetizing \Ap"pe*ti`zing\, a. [Cf. F. app['e]tissant.]
Exciting appetite; as, appetizing food.
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The appearance of the wild ducks is very appetizing.
--Sir W.
Scott.
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Archaizing
(gcide) | Archaize \Ar"cha*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Archaized; p. pr. &
vb. n. Archaizing.] [Gr. 'archai:`zein.]
To make appear archaic or antique. --Mahaffy.
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Aromatizing
(gcide) | Aromatize \A*ro"ma*tize\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Aromatized; p. pr. & vb. n. Aromatizing.] [L.
aromatizare, Gr. ?: cf. F. aromatiser.]
To impregnate with aroma; to render aromatic; to give a spicy
scent or taste to; to perfume. --Bacon.
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Arterializing
(gcide) | Arterialize \Ar*te"ri*al*ize\, 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.
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Assizing
(gcide) | Assize \As*size"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assized; p. pr. & vb.
n. Assizing.] [From Assize, n.: cf. LL. assisare to
decree in assize. Cf. Asses, v.]
1. To assess; to value; to rate. [Obs.] --Gower.
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2. To fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance
or regulation of authority. [Obs.]
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Astatizing
(gcide) | Astatize \As"ta*tize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Astatized; p. pr. &
vb. n. Astatizing.] (Magnetism)
To render astatic.
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Athetizing
(gcide) | Athetize \Ath"e*tize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Athetized; p. pr. &
vb. n. Athetizing.] [Gr. ?, fr. ? set aside, not fixed; ?
not + ? to place.]
To set aside or reject as spurious, as by marking with an
obelus.
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Authorizing
(gcide) | Authorize \Au"thor*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Authorized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Authorizing.] [OE. autorize, F. autoriser, fr.
LL. auctorizare, authorisare. See Author.]
1. To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give
a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners
to settle a boundary.
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2. To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as,
to authorize a marriage.
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3. To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion;
to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage.
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4. To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to
warrant; as, to authorize a report.
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A woman's story at a winter's fire,
Authorized by her grandam. --Shak.
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5. To justify; to furnish a ground for. --Locke.
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To authorize one's self, to rely for authority. [Obs.]
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Authorizing himself, for the most part, upon other
histories. --Sir P.
Sidney.
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Azotizing
(gcide) | Azotize \Az"o*tize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Azotized (?); p. pr.
& vb. n. Azotizing (?).]
To impregnate with azote, or nitrogen; to nitrogenize.
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Baptizing
(gcide) | Baptize \Bap*tize"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Baptized; p. pr. &
vb. n. Baptizing.] [F. baptiser, L. baptizare, fr. Gr.
bapti`zein. See Baptism.]
1. To administer the sacrament of baptism to.
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2. To christen (because a name is given to infants at their
baptism); to give a name to; to name.
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I'll be new baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo. --Shak.
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3. To sanctify; to consecrate.
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Barbarizing
(gcide) | Barbarize \Bar"ba*rize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Barbarized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Barbarizing.]
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1. To become barbarous.
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The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the
time of Trajan. --De Quincey.
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2. To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.
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The ill habit . . . of wretched barbarizing against
the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored
Anglicisms. --Milton.
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Bastardizing
(gcide) | Bastardize \Bas"tard*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bastardized
(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bastardizing.]
1. To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a
bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.
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The law is so indulgent as not to bastardize the
child, if born, though not begotten, in lawful
wedlock. --Blackstone.
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2. To beget out of wedlock. [R.] --Shak.
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3. to change something (for example, art forms) so that its
value declines; to debase.
Syn: bastardise.
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Bestializing
(gcide) | Bestialize \Bes"tial*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bestialized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Bestializing.]
To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize.
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The process of bestializing humanity. --Hare.
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Bituminizing
(gcide) | Bituminize \Bi*tu"mi*nize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bituminized;
p. pr. & vb. n. Bituminizing.] [Cf. F. bituminiser.]
To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.
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Botanizing
(gcide) | Botanize \Bot"a*nize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Botanized; p. pr. &
vb. n. Botanizing.] [Cf. F. botaniser.]
To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study
plants.
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Bowdlerizing
(gcide) | Bowdlerize \Bowd"ler*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bowdlerized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Bowdlerizing.] [After Dr. Thomas Bowdler, an
English physician, who published an expurgated edition of
Shakespeare in 1818.]
To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts
considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts;
-- said of literary texts.
Syn: bowdlerise, expurgate, shorten, cut.
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It is a grave defect in the splendid tale of Tom
Jones . . . that a Bowdlerized version of it would
be hardly intelligible as a tale. --F. Harrison.
[1913 Webster] -- Bowd`ler*i*za"tion, n. --
Bowd"ler*ism, n.
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Brutalizing
(gcide) | Brutalize \Bru"tal*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brutalized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Brutalizing.] [Cf. F. brutaliser.]
To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.
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Burnettizing
(gcide) | Burnettize \Bur"nett*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Burnettized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Burnettizing.] (Manuf.)
To subject (wood, fabrics, etc.) to a process of saturation
in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay; -- a
process invented by Sir William Burnett.
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Canonizing
(gcide) | Canonize \Can"on*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Canonized; p. pr. &
vb. n. Canonizing.] [F. canoniser or LL. canonizare, fr. L.
canon.. See Canon.]
1. (Eccl.) To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in
the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was
canonized.
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2. To glorify; to exalt to the highest honor.
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Fame in time to come canonize us. --Shak.
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2. To rate as inspired; to include in the canon.[R.]
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Capitalizing
(gcide) | Capitalize \Cap"i*tal*ize\ (k[a^]p"[i^]*tal*[imac]z), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Capitalized (k[a^]p"[i^]*tal*[imac]zd); p.
pr. & vb. n. Capitalizing.]
1. To convert into capital, or to use as capital.
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2. To compute, appraise, or assess the capital value of (a
patent right, an annuity, etc.)
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3. To print in capital letters, or with an initial capital.
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4. To supply capital for (an enterprise), especially by
selling capital stock.
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Capsizing
(gcide) | Capsize \Cap*size"\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Capsized; p. pr.
& vb. n. Capsizing.] [Cf. Sp. cabecear to nod, pitch,
capuzar, chapuzar, to sink (a vessel) by the head; both fr.
L. caput head.]
To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body.
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But what if carrying sail capsize the boat? --Byron.
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Carbonizing
(gcide) | Carbonize \Car"bon*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Carbonized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Carbonizing.] [Cf. F. carboniser.]
1. To convert (an animal or vegetable substance) into a
residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive
agent; to char.
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2. To impregnate or combine with carbon, as in making steel
by cementation.
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Carburizing
(gcide) | Carburize \Car"bu*rize\ (k[aum]r"b[-u]*r[imac]z), v. t. [imp. &
p. p. Carburized; p. pr. & vb. n. Carburizing.] (Chem.)
To combine with carbon or a carbon compound; -- said esp. of
a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating
power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of
volatile hydrocarbons.
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Carnalizing
(gcide) | Carnalize \Car"nal*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Carnalized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Carnalizing.]
To make carnal; to debase to carnality.
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A sensual and carnalized spirit. --John Scott.
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Catheterizing
(gcide) | Catheterize \Cath"e*ter*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Catheterized; p. pr. & vb. n. Catheterizing.] (Med.)
To operate on with a catheter. --Dunglison.
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Cauterizing
(gcide) | Cauterize \Cau"ter*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cauterized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Cauterizing.] [L. cauterizare, Gr. ?, fr. a
branding iron: cf. F. caut['e]rised.. See cauter.]
1. To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic. --Dunglison.
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2. To sear, as the conscience. --Jer. Taylor.
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centralizing
(gcide) | centralizing \centralizing\ adj. prenom.
causing to concentrate at a center. Opposite of
decentralizing. [Narrower terms: {centripetal,
unifying(prenominal)}]
[WordNet 1.5]Centralize \Cen"tral*ize\, 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.
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[To] centralize the power of government. --Bancroft.
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Centralizing
(gcide) | centralizing \centralizing\ adj. prenom.
causing to concentrate at a center. Opposite of
decentralizing. [Narrower terms: {centripetal,
unifying(prenominal)}]
[WordNet 1.5]Centralize \Cen"tral*ize\, 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.
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[To] centralize the power of government. --Bancroft.
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Characterizing
(gcide) | Characterize \Char"ac*ter*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Characterized; p. pr. & vb. n. Characterizing.] [LL.
characterizare, Gr. ?: cf. F. charact['e]riser.]
1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or
traits; to make with distinctive features.
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European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian
faces are Characterized. --Arbuthnot.
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2. To engrave or imprint. [Obs.] --Sir M. Hale.
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3. To indicate the character of; to describe.
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Under the name of Tamerlane he intended to
characterize King William. --Johnson.
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4. To be a characteristic of; to make, or express the
character of.
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The softness and effeminacy which characterize the
men of rank in most countries. --W. Irving.
5. (Chem.) to identify the structure or nature of; as, the
antibiotic activity in the sample was characterized by
HPLC, and proved to be erythromycin.
[PJC]
Syn: To describe; distinguish; mark; designate; style;
particularize; entitle.
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Christianizing
(gcide) | Christianize \Chris"tian*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Christianized; p. pr. & vb. n. Christianizing.] [Cf. F.
christianiser, L. christianizare, fr. Gr. ?.]
1. To make Christian; to convert to Christianity; as, to
Christianize pagans.
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2. To imbue with or adapt to Christian principles.
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Christianized philosophers. --I. Taylor.
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Cicatrizing
(gcide) | Cicatrize \Cic"a*trize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cicatrized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Cicatrizing.] [Cf. F. cicatriser, fr.
cicatrice, L. cicatrix, scar.] (Med.)
To heal or induce the formation of a cicatrix in, as in
wounded or ulcerated flesh. --Wiseman.
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Civilizing
(gcide) | Civilize \Civ"i*lize\, 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.
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Yet blest that fate which did his arms dispose
Her land to civilize, as to subdue. --Dryden
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2. To admit as suitable to a civilized state. [Obs. or R.]
"Civilizing adultery." --Milton.
Syn: To polish; refine; humanize.
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Climatizing
(gcide) | Climatize \Cli"ma*tize\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Climatized;
p. pr. & vb. n. Climatizing.]
To acclimate or become acclimated.
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Colonizing
(gcide) | Colonize \Col"o*nize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Colonized; p. pr. &
vb. n. Colonizing.] [Cf. F. coloniser.]
To plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with
colonists; to migrate to and settle in. --Bacon.
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They that would thus colonize the stars with
inhabitants. --Howell.
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Conventionalizing
(gcide) | Conventionalize \Con*ven"tion*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Conventionalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Conventionalizing.]
1. To make conventional; to bring under the influence of, or
cause to conform to, conventional rules; to establish by
usage. [Also spelled conventionalise.]
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2. (Fine Arts)
(a) To represent by selecting the important features and
those which are expressible in the medium employed,
and omitting the others.
(b) To represent according to an established principle,
whether religious or traditional, or based upon
certain artistic rules of supposed importance.
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Cross-fertilizing
(gcide) | Cross-fertilize \Cross"-fer"ti*lize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Cross-fertilized; p. pr. & vb. n. Cross-fertilizing.]
(Bot.)
To fertilize, as the stigmas of a flower or plant, with the
pollen from another individual of the same species.
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Crystallizing
(gcide) | Crystallize \Crys"tal*lize\ (kr[i^]s"tal*l[imac]z), v. t. [imp.
& p. p. Crystallized (-l[imac]zd); p. pr. & vb. n.
Crystallizing.] [Cf. F. cristalliser. See Crystal.]
To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.
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Dastardizing
(gcide) | Dastardize \Das"tard*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dastardized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Dastardizing.]
To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to
dastardize my courage. --Dryden.
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Decarbonizing
(gcide) | Decarbonize \De*car"bon*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Decarbonized; p. pr. & vb. n. Decarbonizing.]
To deprive of carbon; as, to decarbonize steel; to
decarbonize the blood.
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Decarbonized iron. See Malleable iron.
Decarbonized steel, homogenous wrought iron made by a steel
process, as that of Bessemer; ingot iron.
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decentralizing
(gcide) | decentralizing \decentralizing\ adj. prenom.
causing a dispersion or movement away from the center; --
used especially of power or administrative functions.
Opposite of centralizing.
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Dechristianizing
(gcide) | Dechristianize \De*chris"tian*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Dechristianized; p. pr. & vb. n. Dechristianizing.]
To turn from, or divest of, Christianity.
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Demephitizing
(gcide) | Demephitize \De*meph"i*tize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Demephitized; p. pr. & vb. n. Demephitizing.] [Cf. F.
m['e]phitiser to infect with mephitis.]
To purify from mephitic or foul air. --
De*meph`i*ti*za"tion, n.
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Demonizing
(gcide) | Demonize \De"mon*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Demonized; p. pr. &
vb. n. Demonizing.] [Cf. LL. daemonizare to be possessed by
a demon, Gr. ?.]
1. To convert into a demon; to infuse the principles or fury
of a demon into.
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2. To control or possess by a demon.
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demoralizing
(gcide) | demoralizing \demoralizing\ adj.
1. discouraging. Opposite of encouraging.
Syn: demoralising, disheartening, dispiriting.
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]Demoralize \De*mor"al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Demoralized;
p. pr. & vb. n. Demoralizing.] [F. d['e]moraliser; pref.
d['e]- (L. dis- or de) + moraliser. See Moralize.]
To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the
effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or
untrustworthy in morals, in discipline, in courage, spirit,
etc.; to weaken in spirit or efficiency.
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The demoralizing example of profligate power and
prosperous crime. --Walsh.
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The vices of the nobility had demoralized the army.
--Bancroft.
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Demoralizing
(gcide) | demoralizing \demoralizing\ adj.
1. discouraging. Opposite of encouraging.
Syn: demoralising, disheartening, dispiriting.
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]Demoralize \De*mor"al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Demoralized;
p. pr. & vb. n. Demoralizing.] [F. d['e]moraliser; pref.
d['e]- (L. dis- or de) + moraliser. See Moralize.]
To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the
effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or
untrustworthy in morals, in discipline, in courage, spirit,
etc.; to weaken in spirit or efficiency.
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The demoralizing example of profligate power and
prosperous crime. --Walsh.
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The vices of the nobility had demoralized the army.
--Bancroft.
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Denationalizing
(gcide) | Denationalize \De*na"tion*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Denationalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Denationalizing.] [Cf. F.
d['e]nationaliser.]
1. To divest or deprive of national character or rights.
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Bonaparte's decree denationalizes, as he calls it,
all ships that have touched at a British port.
--Cobbett.
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An expatriated, denationalized race. --G. Eliot.
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2. to change (something, as an industry or business) from
state to private ownership or control; as, the British
denationalization of steel.
Syn: privatize, denationalise.
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Denaturalizing
(gcide) | Denaturalize \De*nat"u*ral*ize\ (?; 135), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Denaturalized; p. pr. & vb. n. Denaturalizing.] [Cf. F.
d['e]naturaliser.]
1. To render unnatural; to alienate from nature.
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2. To renounce the natural rights and duties of; to deprive
of citizenship; to denationalize. [R.]
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They also claimed the privilege, when aggrieved, of
denaturalizing themselves, or, in other words, of
publicly renouncing their allegiance to their
sovereign, and of enlisting under the banners of his
enemy. --Prescott.
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3. same as denature.
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Dentizing
(gcide) | Dentize \Den"tize\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Dentized; p. pr.
& vb. n. Dentizing.] [L. dens, dentis, tooth.]
To breed or cut new teeth. [R.]
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The old countess . . . did dentize twice or thrice.
--Bacon.
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Depolarizing
(gcide) | Depolarize \De*po"lar*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Depolarized;
p. pr. & vb. n. Depolarizing.] [Pref. de- + polarize: cf.
F. d['e]polarizer.]
1. (Opt.) To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized
condition.
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Note: This word has been inaccurately applied in optics to
describe the effect of a polarizing medium, as a
crystalline plate, in causing the reappearance of a
ray, in consequence of a change in its plane of
polarization, which previously to the change was
intercepted by the analyzer.
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2. (Elec.) To free from polarization, as the negative plate
of the voltaic battery.
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desensitizing
(gcide) | desensitizing \desensitizing\ adj.
making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or
emotional stimuli. Opposite of sensitizing. [Narrower
terms: numbing]
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