Definition of Crystalise

1. Verb. Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear. "Clear up the question of who is at fault"


2. Verb. Cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form. "Crystallize minerals"

3. Verb. Assume crystalline form; become crystallized.
Exact synonyms: Crystalize, Crystallize, Effloresce
Generic synonyms: Solidify
Specialized synonyms: Devitrify
Derivative terms: Crystal, Crystal, Crystal, Crystal, Crystal, Crystallization, Crystallization, Crystallizing

4. Verb. Cause to take on a definite and clear shape. "He tried to crystallize his thoughts"
Exact synonyms: Crystalize, Crystallise, Crystallize
Generic synonyms: Form, Shape
Derivative terms: Crystallization

Definition of Crystalise

1. Verb. (British) (alternative spelling of crystalize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crystalise

crystal oscillator
crystal pickup
crystal radio
crystal rash
crystal rectifier
crystal set
crystal sets
crystal stone
crystal structure
crystal tea
crystal twinning
crystal violet
crystal violet vaccine
crystalisation
crystalisations
crystalise (current term)
crystalised
crystalises
crystalising
crystalize
crystalized
crystalizes
crystalizing
crystall
crystalliferous
crystallin
crystalline
crystalline capsule
crystalline cataract
crystalline digitalin

Literary usage of Crystalise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Government of England by Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1908)
"The function of statesmen in a democracy is quite as much to precipitate, to crystalise and to formulate, as to create, public opinion. ..."

2. Man, the Social Creator by Henry Demarest Lloyd (1906)
"The chemist trying to make some obstinate liquid crystalise throws into it a few crystals of its own substance, and instantly ..."

3. Journal by Chartered Insurance Institute (1907)
"After being allowed to crystalise the moulded cream is tipped into a machine which brushes away the flour, and thus cleansed it is taken to the coating ..."

4. The Peace Movement of America by Julius Moritzen (1912)
"... Germany's forty years of peace is an ample guarantee to America that it requires but an incentive to crystalise mutual sympathy into a political pact. ..."

5. The Peace Movement of America by Julius Moritzen (1912)
"... Germany's forty years of peace is an ample guarantee to America that it requires but an incentive to crystalise mutual sympathy into a political pact. ..."

6. The Vicarious Sacrifice: Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation by Horace Bushnell (1880)
"A great power then is wanted, which can pierce, and press, and draw, and sway, and, as it were, new crystalise the soul, which still is not any kind of ..."

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