focalize
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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
They lack the burning glass of a purpose, to focalize upon one spot the separate rays of their ability.
From How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Marden, Orison Swett
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
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.
If it did not focalize, it would see indistinctly.
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
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
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 Lee, Carson Jay
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 McIvor-Tyndall, Alexander J. (Alexander James)
Patriotism has perhaps gained intensity in proportion as it has become focalized.
From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Gulick, Sidney Lewis
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
