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v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Acclimatized p. pr. & vb. n. Acclimatizing ] To inure or habituate to a climate different from that which is natural; to adapt to the peculiarities of a foreign or strange climate; said of man, the inferior animals, or plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To acetify. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Achromatized p. pr. & vb. n. Achromatizing ] [ Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_; color. ] To deprive of color; to make achromatic. [ Also spelled achromatise. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make actual; to realize in action. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. changed from potential to actual; as, saw his worst fears actualized.
Syn. -- realized [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. adoniser, fr. Adonis. ] To beautify; to dandify. [ 1913 Webster ]

I employed three good hours at least in adjusting and adonozing myself. Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To commit adultery. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To give the force or form of an adverb to. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. same as advertise. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. 1. give bad advice to
Syn. -- misadvise, mismisguide, advize [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. [ Amer. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Usually p. p. Agatized ] To convert into agate; to make resemble agate. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To increase or become great. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Follies, continued till old age, do aggrandize. J. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Aggrandized p. pr. & vb. n. Aggrandizing ] [ F. agrandir; à (L. ad) + grandir to increase, L. grandire, fr. grandis great. See Grand, and cf. Finish. ] 1. To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

His scheme for aggrandizing his son. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make appear great or greater; to exalt. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To augment; exalt; promote; advance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. agrandissement. ] The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Augmentation; exaltation; enlargement; advancement; promotion; preferment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who aggrandizes, or makes great. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Formed like recognize, fr. L. agnoscere. ] To recognize; to acknowledge. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I do agnize a natural and prompt alacrity. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Agonized p. pr. & vb. n. Agonizing ] [ F. agoniser, LL. agonizare, fr. Gr. &unr_;. See Agony. ] 1. To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish. [ 1913 Webster ]

To smart and agonize at every pore. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture. [ 1913 Webster ]

He agonized his mother by his behavior. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. expressing pain or agony. agonized screams [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

v. t. To distribute according to, or to imbue with, the principles of agrarianism. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Albumenized p. pr. & vb. n. Albumenizing. ] To cover or saturate with albumen; to coat or treat with an albuminous solution; as, to albumenize paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To change by alchemy; to transmute. Lovelace. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Alcoholized p. pr. & vb. n. Alcoholizing. ] [ Cf. F. alcooliser. ] 1. To reduce to a fine powder. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To convert into alcohol; to rectify; also, to saturate with alcohol. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To perform by algebra; to reduce to algebraic form. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Alkalized p. pr. & vb. n. Alkalizing ] [ Cf. F. alcaliser. ] To render alkaline; to communicate the properties of an alkali to. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Allegorized p. pr. & vb. n. Allegorizing. ] [ Cf. F. allégoriser, fr. L. allegorizare. ] 1. To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To use allegory. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To change in physical properties but not in substance. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To furnish with an alphabet. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To treat or impregnate with alum; to alum. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To amalgamate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Americanizer p. pr. & vb. n. Americanizing. ] To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. amortisen, LL. amortisare, admortizare, F. amortir to sell in mortmain, to extinguish; L. ad + mors death. See Mortmain ]. 1. To make as if dead; to destroy. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See Mortmain. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To clear off or extinguish, as a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. amortissement. ] Same as Amortization. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; again + &unr_; to baptize. See Baptize. ] To rebaptize; to rechristen; also, to rename. [ R. ] Whitlock. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] To refer to, or put into, a wrong time. [ R. ] Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ , v. t. (Med.) To produce anesthesia by an anæsthetic. Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

adj. 1. rendered insensible by means of anesthesia. [ Also spelled anesthetized. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ Gr. 'anagrammati`zein cf. F. anagrammatiser. ] To transpose, as the letters of a word, so as to form an anagram. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To employ, or reason by, analogy. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To reduce to anarchy. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Anathematized p. pr. & vb. n. Anathematizing. ] [ L. anathematizare, Gr. &unr_; to devote, make accursed: cf. F. anathématiser. ] To pronounce an anathema against; to curse. Hence: To condemn publicly as something accursed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who pronounces an anathema. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Anatomized p. pr. & vb. n. Anatomizing. ] [ Cf. F. anatomiser. ] 1. To dissect; to cut in pieces, as an animal vegetable body, for the purpose of displaying or examining the structure and use of the several parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To discriminate minutely or carefully; to analyze. [ 1913 Webster ]

If we anatomize all other reasonings of this nature, we shall find that they are founded on the relation of cause and effect. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dissector. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to become unconscious by administration of an anaesthetic agent. [ Also spelled anaesthetize. ]
Syn. -- put to sleep, put under, put out. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]