focalize

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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 Marden, Orison Swett

We 'll have up a couple of dollars, just to focalize the interest.

From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Blossom, Henry M.

Between the ages of 40 and 50, the crystalline lenses of his eyes having hardened along with the other tissues of his body, he finds it impossible to focalize as he used to.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various

Such a construction is particularly stable, as these focalize on the line of interest.

From Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures by Poore, Henry Rankin

If it did not focalize, it would see indistinctly.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various