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Capable of being crystallized; that may be formed into crystals.

The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations.

The action of decentralizing, or the state of being decentralized. "The decentralization of France." J. P. Peters.

The disorganization or disarming of troops which have previously been mobilized or called into active service; the change from a war footing to a peace footing.

or the state of being corrupted or subverted in discipline, courage, etc.; as, the demoralization of an army or navy.

The or process of denationalizing.

Pertaining to Queen Elizabeth or her times, esp. to the architecture or literature of her reign; as, the Elizabethan writers, drama, literature. -- n.

The act of equalizing, or state of being equalized. Their equalization with the rest of their fellow subjects. Burke.

An ethereal or spiritlike state. J. H. Stirling.

of evangelizing; the state of being evangelized. The work of Christ's ministers is evangelization. Hobbes.

tile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation. Close fertilization (Bot.), the fertilization of pistils by pollen derived from the stamens of the same blossom. -- Cross fertilization, fertilization by pollen from some other blossom. See under Cross, a.

The act of reducing to feudal tenure.

The act of focalizing or bringing to a focus, or the state of being focalized.

The act or process of reducing to a formula; the state of being formulized.

The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.

ral form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge

ticulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars. Generalization is only the apprehension of the one in the many. Sir W. Hamilton.

The act or process of idealizing.

The act of immortalizing, or state of being immortalized.

The state of being uncivilized; want of civilization; barbarism.