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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.

4. Verb. Cause to take on a definite and clear shape. "He tried to crystallize his thoughts"

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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