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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.

The act or process of sterilizing an animal or human being, as by vasectomy.

Separation by atmolysis.

The act of reducing to atoms, or very minute particles; or the state of being so reduced.

ing authority or legal power; establishment by authority; sanction or warrant. The authorization of laws. Motley. A special authorization from the chief. Merivale.

Baptism. [Obs.] Their baptizations were null. Jer. Taylor.

The process of bituminizing. Mantell.

The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized.

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

e catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation. Canonization of saints was not known to the Christian church titl toward the middle of the tenth century. Hoock.

The act or process of capitalizing.

The act or process of carbonizing.

The act, process, or result of carburizing.

The operation of introducing a catheter.

The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application.

; 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.

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.

The act or process of characterizing.

The process of becoming chitinous.

The act or process of converting or being converted to a true Christianity.