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

A medicine or application that promotes the healing of a sore or wound, or the formation of a cicatrix.

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

Capable of being civilized.

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…

To clip with scissors. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Scissors. [Obs.] Swift.

Capable of being known or apprehended; as, cognizable causes.

In a cognizable manner.

Apprehension by the understanding; perception; observation. Within the cognizance and lying under the control of their divine Governor. Bp. Hurd

Having cognizance or knowledge. (of).

A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle. Gray.

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.

A variety of cabbage (Brassica oleracea), cultivated for its seeds, which yield an oil valued for illuminating and lubricating purposes; summer rape.

The act of making conventional.

Nasal catarrh.

A coin. See Crusado.

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

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