focalize
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We 'll have up a couple of dollars, just to focalize the interest.
From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Blossom, Henry M.
Those to whom the development of character is a reality will watch tendencies and train them before they focalize in crises.
From Religious Education in the Family by Cope, Henry Frederick
Versatile men, universal geniuses, are usually weak, because they have no power to concentrate the rays of their ability, to focalize them upon one point, until they burn a hole in whatever they undertake.
From How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Marden, Orison Swett
The bacilli multiply everywhere, but seem for some reason to focalize chiefly in the alimentary canal, and especially the middle part of it, the small intestines.
From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods
Most men have ability enough, if they could only focalize it into one grand, central, all-absorbing purpose, to accomplish great things.
From How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Marden, Orison Swett
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