‖n. pl. [ L. See Cereal. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Chem.) A nitrogenous substance closely resembling diastase, obtained from bran, and possessing the power of converting starch into dextrin, sugar, and lactic acid. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Materialism. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who denies the reality of spiritual existences; a materialist. [ 1913 Webster ]
Some corporealists pretended . . . to make a world without a God. Bp. Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.:
v. t. To divest of reality; to make uncertain. [ Obs. ] Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Ethereality. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state of being ethereal; etherealness. [ 1913 Webster ]
Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. An ethereal or spiritlike state. J. H. Stirling. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
Etherealized, moreover, by spiritual communications with the other world. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Existence without a body or material form; immateriality. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who believes in incorporealism. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state or quality of being incorporeal or bodiless; immateriality; incorporealism. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖pos>n. [ NL. Linnaeus Linnæan + L. borealis northern. ] (Bot.) The twin flower which grows in cold northern climates. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. réalisme. ]
n. [ Cf. F. réaliste. ]
a. Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a realistic manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
A man fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]
And to realities yield all her shows. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
My neck may be an idea to you, but it is a reality to me. Beattie. [ 1913 Webster ]
To express our reality to the emperor. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Capable of being realized. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. réalisation. ] The act of realizing, or the state of being realized. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighing a single grain against the globe of earth. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]
Many coincidences . . . soon begin to appear in them [ Greek inscriptions ] which realize ancient history to us. Jowett. [ 1913 Webster ]
We can not realize it in thought, that the object . . . had really no being at any past moment. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Knighthood was not beyond the reach of any man who could by diligent thrift realize a good estate. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, as shares in stock companies, bonds, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]
Wary men took the alarm, and began to realize, a word now first brought into use to express the conversion of ideal property into something real. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who realizes. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Serving to make real, or to impress on the mind as a reality;
v. t. To elevate to the stars, or to the region of the stars; to etherealize. [ 1913 Webster ]
German literature transformed, siderealized, as we see it in Goethe, reckons Winckelmann among its initiators. W. Pater. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality or state of being unreal; want of reality. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + realize. ] To make unreal; to idealize. [ 1913 Webster ]
His fancy . . . unrealizes everything at a touch. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]