focalizev.

1804 W. P. Russel Project 17 There will be an opportunity to concentrate, or (if I may be allowed to form a word) to focalize, to bring to one point, all information relative to school-affairs.

1852 Amer. Whig Rev. Aug. 144/1 There is throughout a converging interest powerfully focalizing and centralizing the mind.

1860 T. Martin in tr. Horace Odes Introd. 26 The mirror which focalizes for their old age the gathered wisdom of a lifetime.

a1910 ‘M. Twain’ Autobiography (2010) I. 225 That is where my curiosity is focalized.

1963 N. A. Scott Reinhold Niebuhr 9 The blighting effect..of modern industrialism..began to focalize for him the crisis of the person in an advanced technocratic civilization.

1983 R. N. Boyd Prison Slang in Sex behind Bars (1984) 18 Convict slang tends to focalize on three main topics: crime, drugs, and sex.

1992 G. Adair Post-modernist always rings Twice 20 The kind of film buff purist for whom..it remains essential..that the screen engulf him and focalise all his mental and ocular faculties.

2014 Mass. Daily Collegian (Nexis) 8 Oct. 1 The Internet focalizes activism in all its forms, signal boosting causes to sympathetic ears all around the world.

1827 W. Hone Table Bk. I. 825/1 He [sc. Archimedes] focalized fire from heaven.

1845 T. De Quincey On Temperance Movement in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 664/2 Light is focalised in the eye; sound in the ear.

c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 29/2 The rays of heat may be collected and focalised.

1922 H. S. Williams Pract. Radio ii. 49 The telescope and microscope..focalize rays of light.

2004 Laser & Particle Beams 22 462/1 In order to focalize the laser beam on the target, we used a convergent lens..together with a set of neutral density filters to modify the pulse energy.

1841 Sat. Mag. 30 Oct. 164/2 The Professor remarked that this appearance must have been observed by many persons, but that none had thought of referring it to its cause; which is exactly analogous to that of the vision of two inclined lines, when each is presented to a different eye focalized in the manner before described.

1876 Amer. Cycl. XV. 237/2 The most common of these troubles is want of power to focalize the eye upon near objects.

1886 W. F. Warren in Homiletic Rev. Jan. 54 Your eye, even if rightly directed, is focalizing itself upon the wrong object.

1863 Dental Cosmos 5 15 This virus [of syphilis]..is a powerful disorganizing force, and when focalized soon accomplishes its work of disorganization, and when fully generalized, its mission of death.

1906 Practitioner Nov. 589 The severer disturbances of the liver, those in which the intoxication..focalises in the liver.

1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 11 Jan. 108/2 This raises the important question why certain bacteria tend to focalize and produce infections in particular sites, when circulating in the bloodstream.

2008 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 335 323/1 When this pain became increasingly severe and ultimately focalized to his left knee, right wrist, and right ankle, he returned to Student Health 5 days after his initial visit.

1838 Belfast News Let. 6 Nov. The great difficulty of procuring such large pieces of flint glass has induced Sir David Brewster to propose that burning glasses should be built up of several pieces, each piece being so curved as to contribute to the general focalizing effect.

1872 J. Morley Voltaire iii. 115 Voltaire does not use these focalising words and turns of composition.

1878 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. XVII. 668 The supposed amaurosis of many observers..is the result of the loss of the power of focalizing.

1883 J. Millington Are we to read Backwards? 71 Spectacles..restoring to the eye its former focalizing power.

1931 Amer. Lit. 2 397 With marvelous dexterity, with adroit applications of party cries and focalizings of party resources, this faction has succeeded beyond its wildest expectations.

2000 C. Bradford in R. McGillis Voices of Other vi. 91 In addition, boy adventurers constitute focalizing characters embodying a normative set of behaviors and ideologies against which is displayed the otherness of ‘wild blacks’.

1838 Belfast News Let. 6 Nov. The whole of the rays will pass through the various lenses in directions at right angles to the diameters, and therefore in the most favourable direction for producing a powerful focalized effect.

1910 V. Horsley in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Dec. 1833/2 By focalized epilepsy I mean all varieties of epilepsy in which the focus or starting point of the seizure can be localized to one lobe of the cerebrum.

1937 G. W. Allport Personality xi. 295 We are left with a concept of trait as a generalized and focalized neuropsychic system (peculiar to the individual).

1998 Radiotherapy & Oncol. 47 99 Focalized external irradiation cannot serve as a reasonable alternative to whole brain radiotherapy.

2005 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 192 1027/1 Demonstration of highly focalized intracellular reservoirs of S. aureus in various cell types of the endonasal mucosa..represents an important step toward a more complete understanding of persistent infection.