focalize
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If it did not focalize, it would see indistinctly.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various
Two natures meet on the human plane, and focalize in man.
From The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology by Buck, J. D. (Jirah Dewey)
We 'll have up a couple of dollars, just to focalize the interest.
From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Blossom, Henry M.
Now comes one of those remarkable facts of super-epochal history," continues Bonsall, "which go to show that when revolutionary periods focalize, revolutions in public sentiment are brought about in almost a twinkling.
From Labor and Freedom by Debs, Eugene V.
Between the ages of 40 and 50, the crystalline lenses of his eyes having hardened along with the other tissues of his body, he finds it impossible to focalize as he used to.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various
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