n. The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. achromatisation. ] The act or process of achromatizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A making actual or really existent; giving the appearance of reality. [ R. ] Emerson.
Syn. -- realization, realisation. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ LL. admortizatio. Cf. Amortization. ] (Law) The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See Mortmain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Aggrandizement. [ Obs. ] Waterhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. alcoolisation. ] 1. The act of reducing a substance to a fine or impalpable powder. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act rectifying spirit. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Saturation with alcohol; putting the animal system under the influence of alcoholic liquor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. alcalisation. ] The act of rendering alkaline by impregnating with an alkali; a conferring of alkaline qualities. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process of Americanizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. amortisatio, admortizatio. See Amortize, and cf. Admortization. ] 1. (Law) The act or right of alienating lands to a corporation, which was considered formerly as transferring them to dead hands, or in mortmain. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The extinction of a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund; also, the money thus paid. Simmonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process of anæsthetizing; also, the condition of the nervous system induced by anæsthetics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of analyzing, or separating into constituent parts; analysis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. anathematisatio. ] The act of anathematizing, or denouncing as accursed; imprecation. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of anatomizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of anglicizing, or making English in character. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. animalisation. ] 1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. arborisation, fr. L. arbor tree. ] The appearance or figure of a tree or plant, as in minerals or fossils; a dendrite. [ 1913 Webster ]

. The system by which a country raises, classifies, arranges, and equips its armed land forces. The usual divisions are: (1) A regular or active army, in which soldiers serve continuously with the colors and live in barracks or cantonments when not in the field; (2) the reserves of this army, in which the soldiers, while remaining constantly subject to a call to the colors, live at their homes, being summoned more or less frequently to report for instruction, drill, or maneuvers; and (3) one or more classes of soldiers organized largely for territorial defense, living at home and having only occasional periods of drill and instraction, who are variously called home reserves (as in the table below), second, third, etc., line of defense (the regular army and its reserves ordinarily constituting the first line of defense), territorial forces, or the like. In countries where conscription prevails a soldier is supposed to serve a given number of years. He is usually enrolled first in the regular army, then passes to its reserve, then into the home reserves, to serve until he reaches the age limit. It for any reason he is not enrolled in the regular army, he may begin his service in the army reserves or even the home reserves, but then serves the full number of years or up to the age limit. In equipment the organization of the army is into the three great arms of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, together with more or less numerous other branches, such as engineers, medical corps, etc., besides the staff organizations such as those of the pay and subsistence departments. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

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n. [ Cf. F. aromatisation. ] The act of impregnating or secting with aroma. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol.) The process of converting venous blood into arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; -- called also aëration and hematosis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Asexual + -ize + -ation. ] The act or process of sterilizing an animal or human being, as by vasectomy. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Chem.) Separation by atmolysis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of reducing to atoms, or very minute particles; or the state of being so reduced. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) The reduction of fluids into fine spray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. autorisation. ] The act of giving authority or legal power; establishment by authority; sanction or warrant. [ 1913 Webster ]

The authorization of laws. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

A special authorization from the chief. Merivale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Baptism. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Their baptizations were null. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the act or process of barbarizing; an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized.
Syn. -- barbarisation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An act that debases or corrupts.
Syn. -- bastardisation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. bituminisation. ] The process of bituminizing. Mantell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the deletion of all passages considered to be indecent.
Syn. -- bowdlerisation, expurgation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. canonisation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (R. C. Ch.) The final process or decree (following beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Canonization of saints was not known to the Christian church titl toward the middle of the tenth century. Hoock. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being canonized or sainted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or process of capitalizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. carbonisation. ] 1. The act or process of carbonizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. the destructive distillation of coal (as in coke ovens).
Syn. -- carbonisation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Chem.) The act, process, or result of carburizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Med.) The operation of introducing a catheter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. cautèrisation. ] (Med.) The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. centralisation. ] The act or process of centralizing, or the state of being centralized; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole; as, the centralization of power in the general government; the centralization of commerce in a city. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Domination of the head in animal life as expressed in the physical structure; localization of important organs or parts in or near the head, in animal development. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of characterizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The process of becoming chitinous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of converting or being converted to a true Christianity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. cicatrisation. ] (Med.) The process of forming a cicatrix, or the state of being cicatrized. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. civilisation. ] 1. The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners, and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles -- . . . the spirit of a gentleman, and spirit of religion. Burke [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Rendering a criminal process civil. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. colonisation. ] The act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wide continent of America invited colonization. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A friend to colonization, esp. (U. S. Hist) to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act or process of making something commercial in character. See commercialize. [ Also spelled commercialisation. ]
Syn. -- . [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the act of formulating or making a concept of something.
Syn. -- conceptualisation, formulation, formularizing, formularising. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. an elaborated concept.
Syn. -- conceptuality. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Fine Arts) (a) The act of making conventional. (b) The state of being conventional. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individuals of the same species. [ WordNet 1.5 ]