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The process of forming a cicatrix, or the state of being cicatrized.

ng, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement. Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners, and with civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles -- . . . the spirit of a gentleman, and spirit of religion. Burke…

nized; the formation of a colony or colonies. The wide continent of America invited colonization. Bancroft.

A friend to colonization, esp. (U. S. Hist) to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States.

The act of making conventional.

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

The conversion of cell walls into a material which repels water, as in cork.

The act of depriving of bitumen.

The action or process of depriving a substance of carbon.

The act, process, or result of decarburizing.

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

The act of freeing from inflections. Earle.

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.

The act of demonetizing, or the condition of being demonetized.

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

The or process of denationalizing.

The act of making one a denizen or adopted citizen; naturalization. Hallam.

The act of depriving of odor, especially of offensive odors resulting from impurities.

Deoxidation.

The act of freeing from phosphorous.