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focalize, v.|ˈfəʊkəlaɪz|
[f. focal a. + -ize.]
1. trans. To bring (rays of light, heat, etc.) to a focal point (or focus); to focus.
1845De Quincey Nat. Temp. Movem. Wks. 1863 XI. 170 Light is focalised in the eye, sound in the ear. c1865J. Wylde in Circ. Sc. I. 29/2 The rays of heat may be collected and focalised.
fig.1860T. Martin Horace Introd. 26 The mirror which focalizes for their old age the gathered wisdom of a lifetime. 1865Lond. Rev. 9 Dec. 609/1 At the various central offices, the information..can be focalized.
2. To adjust or arrange the focus of (the eye); also absol. and refl. (of the eye).
1878tr. Ziemssen's Cycl. Pract. Med. XVII. 668 The supposed amaurosis of many observers..is the result of the loss of the power of focalizing. 1886W. F. Warren in Homilet. Rev. (U.S.) Jan. 54 Gradually focalizing our eyes for remoter objects. Ibid., Your eye, even if rightly directed, is focalizing itself upon the wrong object.
3. Med. To confine to a certain focus (focus n. 4). Also intr. for pass.
1906Practitioner Nov. 589 The severer disturbances of the liver, those in which the intoxication..focalises in the liver.
Hence ˈfocalizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; ˈfocalized ppl. a. Also focaliˈzation, the action of focalizing.
1871Morley Voltaire iii. (1872) 119 Voltaire does not use these focalising words and turns of composition. 1883J. Millington Are we to read backwards? 71 Spectacles..restoring to the eye its former focalizing power. 1887Sci. Amer. 23 Apr. 261/2 Focalization in the eye was accomplished by a most wonderful condition, that of flexibility in the crystalline lens. 1893Chicago Advance 24 Aug., Such a focalization of all-around information on any one subject has rarely ever been witnessed. 1906[see detoxicate v.]. 1914V. Horsley in S. Paget Sir V. Horsley (1919) II. 196 Every case of focalised epilepsy. 1937G. W. Allport Personality xi. 295 We are left with a concept of trait as a generalized and focalized neuropsychic system (peculiar to the individual). 1951H. A. Murray in Parsons & Shils Toward Gen. Theory Action 452 The focalizations and reëvaluations that occur in the mind of a hungry man. 1959S Arieti Amer. Handbk. Psychiatry I. i. iv. 103 A need is a general disposition which commonly becomes associated (through ‘focalization’, or ‘canalization’, as Murphy would say) with a number of specific entities. |