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.

Most men have ability enough, if they could only focalize it into one grand, central, all-absorbing purpose, to accomplish great things.

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

We 'll have up a couple of dollars, just to focalize the interest.

From Checkers A Hard-luck Story by Blossom, Henry M.

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)

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