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Definition of Canalizes
1. canalize [v] - See also: canalize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canalizes
Literary usage of Canalizes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Overtones: A Book of Temperaments: Richard Strauss, Parsifal, Verdi, Balzac by James Huneker (1904)
"... oozing banks, and neat embankments, Frederic's life canalizes in leisurely
fashion. He loses his fortune, he inherits another, he goes back to Paris, ..."
2. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"... it makes them into a canal ('canalizes by the building of dams, locks, and
othe neering works and obtains what is known a water navigation. ..."
3. A Realistic Universe: An Introduction to Metaphysics by John Elof Boodin (1916)
"... and while the latter is more subtile and pervasive, it is the material world
which canalizes our electrical energies and makes them serviceable. ..."
4. River and Harbor Bill by United States Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors (1922)
"•Gen. TAYLOR. That is the one leading to Orange. The CHAIRMAN. I suppose it
canalizes the stream more or less? •Gen. TAYLOR. No, sir; it is a canal. ..."
5. History of the Barge Canal of New York State by Noble Earl Whitford (1922)
"... which has left the old alignment and follows and canalizes many of the natural
streams. But to return to the nine-million-dollar improvement. ..."
6. Pragmatism and the Problem of the Idea by John Thomas Driscoll (1915)
"For if the brain or the nervous system canalizes a vague activity diffused
throughout the organism, it forms or moulds or consolidates the knife itself. ..."
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