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
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 J. D. (Jirah Dewey) Buck
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 Orison Swett Marden
We 'll have up a couple of dollars, just to focalize the interest.
From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Henry M. Blossom
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
In history attention must be focalized on modern movements College history courses end thirty to fifty years ago.
From College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper
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
Many men are not conscious of the light that shineth within them, save as there is an aggregate of cell consciousness which recognizes its focalized power as an organism.
From Cosmic Consciousness by Alexander J. (Alexander James) McIvor-Tyndall
Surely such cogent blending requires some powerfully focalized far observatory height!
From Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 by Carson Jay Lee
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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