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ry or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to accomplish; as, to realize a scheme or project. We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighting a single grain against the globe of earth. Glanvill.

One who realizes. Coleridge.

To divest of reality; to make uncertain. [Obs.] Udall.

To render ethereal or spiritlike. Etherealized, moreover, by spiritual communications with the other world. Hawthorne.

To elevate to the stars, or to the region of the stars; to etherealize. German literature transformed, siderealized, as we see it in Goethe, reckons Winckelmann among its initiators. W. Pater.

To make unreal; to idealize. His fancy . . . unrealizes everything at a touch. Lowell.

One who believes that it is possible to realize a cognition or concept of the absolute. Sir. W. Hamilton.

To make actual; to realize in action. [R.] Coleridge.

an of defense, or an argument. To devise curious works. Ex. CCTV. 32. Devising schemes to realize his ambitious views. Bancroft.

To excel in speed. Outspeed the realized miracles of steam. Talfourd.

The sum allowed to a sheriff or other officer upon the amount realized by an execution; -- estimated in England, and formerly in the United States, at so much of the pound. Burrill. Bouvier.

Capable of being realized.

The act of realizing, or the state of being realized.

et no . . . secret skepticism lead any one to doubt whether this blessed prospect will be realized. S. Miller.

Capable of being possessed or realized; readily apprehensible by the mind; real; substantial; evident. "A tangible blunder." Byron. Direct and tangible benefit to ourselves and others. Southey. -- Tan"gi*ble*ness, n. -- Tan"gi*bly, adv.