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 J. D. (Jirah Dewey) Buck
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 Orison Swett Marden
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 Henry Frederick Cope
The eye that is normally shaped forms pictures of objects, more than a few feet distant, on its back wall without any muscular effort, and has to focalize only when engaged in near work.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various
All my motions focalized on pretending to be that guileless schoolgirl who had nothing more wearying to think about than mid-term exams.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
When the attention was focalized in this way, the subject lost sight of the space as a whole.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg
Patriotism has perhaps gained intensity in proportion as it has become focalized.
From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick
Many varied phases of this problem may present themselves, but the mental forces are focalized upon one subject at a time.
From Cosmic Consciousness by Alexander J. (Alexander James) McIvor-Tyndall
A little wearied from the strain of focalized effort, Johnny looked out across the blur of faces.
From Stepsons of Light by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
This individualistic development of the communal principle is its intensive development; it is the focalizing and centralizing of the consciousness of the national unity in each individual member.
From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick
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