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focalize

American  
[foh-kuh-lahyz] / ˈfoʊ kəˌlaɪz /
especially British, focalise

verb (used with or without object)

focalized, focalizing
  1. to bring or come to focus.

  2. to localize.


focalize British  
/ ˈfəʊkəˌlaɪz /

verb

  1. a less common word for focus

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of focalize

First recorded in 1835–45; focal + -ize

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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

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

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)

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.

To be able to focalize the mind on the object at hand in a conscious manner leads to concentration.

From The Power of Concentration by Dumont, Theron Q.

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

The inevitable result is that the attention of the people has been focalized upon the manufacturing towns and the large cities.

From The Making of a Country Parish by Harlow S.

Patriotism has perhaps gained intensity in proportion as it has become focalized.

From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Gulick, Sidney Lewis

In some persons this is highly focalized and concentrated, and the focal ideas predominate in determining association.

From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by James, William

Science is Truth focalized, and there is no real science without truth.

From Adventures in the Canyons of the Colorado By two of its earliest explorers by Bass, William Wallace

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 Gulick, Sidney Lewis

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