focalize

Example Sentences

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To be able to focalize the mind on the object at hand in a conscious manner leads to concentration.

From The Power of Concentration by Dumont, Theron Q.

They lack the burning glass of a purpose, to focalize upon one  spot the separate rays of their ability.

From How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Marden, Orison Swett

The eye that is normally shaped forms pictures of objects, more than a few feet distant, on its back wall without any muscular effort, and has to focalize only when engaged in near work.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various

Two natures meet on the human plane, and focalize in man.

From The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology by Buck, J. D. (Jirah Dewey)

Between the ages of 40 and 50, the crystalline lenses of his eyes having hardened along with the other tissues of his body, he finds it impossible to focalize as he used to.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various