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The act of utilizing, or the state of being utilized.

Act or process of attempting to give an arbitrary market value or price to a commodity by governmental interference, as by maintaining a purchasing fund, making loans to producers to enable them to hold their products, etc.; -- used chiefly of such action by Brazil.

The act or process of vaporizing, or the state of being converted into vapor; the artificial formation of vapor; specifically, the conversion of water into steam, as in a steam boiler.

The act of verbalizing, or the state of being verbalized.

The act or process of making vernacular, or the state of being made vernacular. Fitzed. Hall.

The act or process of vitalizing, or infusing the vital principle.

The act of vitriolizing, or the state of being vitriolized; vitriolation.

The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized.

The act or process of volatilizing, or rendering volatile; the state of being volatilized.

The act of volcanizing, or the state of being volcanized; the process of undergoing volcanic heat, and being affected by it.

The act or process of imparting to caoutchouc, gutta-percha, or the like, greater elasticity, durability, or hardness by heating with sulphur under pressure.

The act or process of making vulgar, or common.

kind of reasoning which derives propositions from the observation of facts, or by generalizations from facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse of a priori reasoning.

e expression "abstract name" to all names which are the result of abstraction and generalization, and consequently to all general names, instead of confining it to the names of attributes. J. S. Mill.

Acclimatization.

of becoming, or the state of being, acclimated, or habituated to a new climate; acclimatization.

e state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. "The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions." Sir M. Hale.

Cauterization. Buchanan.

by exposure to the air in respiration; oxygenation of the blood in respiration; arterialization.

Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization.