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Crystallise

verb

Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear. Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out. "Clear up the question of who is at fault"

Cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form. Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize.

Cause to take on a definite and clear shape. Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize.

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"Crystallise" Quotes from Famous Books

... fact of consciousness entails a reaction of the whole assemblage of social phenomena upon themselves, such as the natural sciences have no example of." And he concludes: "Sociology ought, therefore, to guard carefully against the tendency to crystallise that which is essentially fluid and moving, the tendency to consider as given fact or dead data that which creates itself and gives itself into the world of phenomena continually by force of its own ideal ...

— An Englishman Looks at the World • H. G. Wells

Words linked to "Crystallise" : form, effloresce, shape, crystallisation, physics, natural philosophy, clarify, crystalise, change integrity, sort out