focalize

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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

Those to whom the development of character is a reality will watch tendencies and train them before they focalize in crises.

From Religious Education in the Family by Cope, Henry Frederick

The bacilli multiply everywhere, but seem for some reason to focalize chiefly in the alimentary canal, and especially the middle part of it, the small intestines.

From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods

If it did not focalize, it would see indistinctly.

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

Such a construction is particularly stable, as these focalize on the line of interest.

From Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures by Poore, Henry Rankin