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of polarity, or the result of such action; reduction to an unpolarized condition. Depolarization of light (Opt.), a change in the plane of polarization of rays, especially by a crystalline medium, such that the light which had been extinguished by the analyzer reappears as if the polarization had been anulled. The word…

The act or the process of freeing from silver; also, the condition resulting from the removal of silver.

The act of desynonymizing.

Dethronement. [Obs.] Speed.

The act of detonizing; detonation.

The act or process of dialysis.

The act of changing into a diphthong. H. Sweet.

The state of being disorganized; as, the disorganization of the body, or of government. The magazine of a pawnbroker in such total disorganization, that the owner can never lay his hands upon any one article at the moment he has occasion for it. Sir W. Scott.

A making divine. M. Arnold.

Act of dramatizing.

The act of setting free the dynamic powers of a medicine, as by shaking the bottle containing it.

The act or practice of using to the best effect. [R.] H. Spenser.

The act of electrizing; electrification.

The act or the process of electrolyzing.

The act of naturalizing. [R.]

The act of enthroning; hence, the admission of a bishop to his stall or throne in his cathedral.

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

The act of eternizing; the act of rendering immortal or famous.

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

The administration of ether to produce insensibility.