focalize

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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.

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

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 Marden, Orison Swett

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.