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Crystallize   /krˈɪstəlˌaɪz/   Listen
Crystallize

verb
(past & past part. crystallized; pres. part. crystallizing)
1.
Cause to take on a definite and clear shape.  Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallise.
2.
Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear.  Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out.  "Clear up the question of who is at fault"
3.
Cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form.  Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallise.
4.
Assume crystalline form; become crystallized.  Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, effloresce.






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"Crystallize" Quotes from Famous Books



... soon become wearisome to all but the specialist actually engaged in the work. But when reasons are assigned, and classification explained, when the number of causes is reduced and the effects begin to crystallize into essential and clearly related parts of one whole, every intelligent student finds interest, and many, more fortunate, even fascination in ...
— Composition-Rhetoric • Stratton D. Brooks

... for such a change, the advent of a man of genius will accomplish it. Around him the particles crystallize and take form and beauty. Such a man was David,—a brave soldier, a great captain, a sagacious adventurer, an artist, musician, and poet, a man of profound religious experience; he was, more than all these, a statesman. By his great ...
— Ten Great Religions - An Essay in Comparative Theology • James Freeman Clarke

... of the transition. The days were growing shorter and the leaden-colored vapors, driven by the whip of that taskmaster, the wind, replaced the snow-white clouds becalmed in the tender depths of ether. Soon would the hoar frost crystallize on grass and fence, or the autumn rains descend, dripping mournfully from the water spouts and bubbling over the tubs. Already the character of the dawn was changed to an almost sullen awakening of the day, denoting a seeming uneasiness of ...
— The Strollers • Frederic S. Isham

... and whenever I said to my crowded audiences that we must give to woman the right to vote that she may purify the nation of this great sin, there went up shouts and clapping of hands of men and women. They are ready for this work. What we want is to crystallize the public opinion of all ranks of society in its favor. There is great fear that if woman is allowed to vote, she will lose something of her high and excellent character. If it is right for woman to have the suffrage, it is not right to talk of expediency. If giving woman the ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage

... will crystallize the discussion. First: The years up to twelve present two conditions for habit formation—plastic brain cells and action easily secured—as no ...
— The Unfolding Life • Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux


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