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n. The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in an allegorical sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Allegorized p. pr. & vb. n. Allegorizing. ] [ Cf. F. allégoriser, fr. L. allegorizare. ] 1. To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To treat as allegorical; to understand in an allegorical sense; as, when a passage in a writer may understood literally or figuratively, he who gives it a figurative sense is said to allegorize it. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To use allegory. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; an allegorist. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To augur. [ Obs. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make aphorisms. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Appraisal. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ The same as Appraise, only more accommodated to the English form of the L. pretiare. ] To appraise; to value; to appreciate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Appraisement. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An appraiser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Scots Law) A creditor for whom an appraisal is made. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. arborisation, fr. L. arbor tree. ] The appearance or figure of a tree or plant, as in minerals or fossils; a dendrite. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a treelike appearance. “An arborized or moss agate.” Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a resident of Arizona.
Syn. -- Arizonian [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a resident of Arizona.
Syn. -- Arizonan [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ LL. authorisabilis. ] Capable of being authorized. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. autorisation. ] The act of giving authority or legal power; establishment by authority; sanction or warrant. [ 1913 Webster ]

The authorization of laws. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

A special authorization from the chief. Merivale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Authorized p. pr. & vb. n. Authorizing. ] [ OE. autorize, F. autoriser, fr. LL. auctorizare, authorisare. See Author. ] 1. To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To establish by authority, as by usage or public opinion; to sanction; as, idioms authorized by usage. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To sanction or confirm by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report. [ 1913 Webster ]

A woman's story at a winter's fire,
Authorized by her grandam. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To justify; to furnish a ground for. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

To authorize one's self, to rely for authority. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] Authorizing himself, for the most part, upon other histories. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sanctioned by authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Authorized Version of the Bible is the English translation of the Bible published in 1611 under sanction of King James I. It was “appointed to be read in churches, ” and has been the accepted English Bible. The Revised Version was published in a complete form in 1855. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who authorizes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. to subject to the action of bacteria.
Syn. -- bacterise. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. the act or process of barbarizing; an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized.
Syn. -- barbarisation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Barbarized p. pr. & vb. n. Barbarizing ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To become barbarous. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the time of Trajan. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ill habit . . . of wretched barbarizing against the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored Anglicisms. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. barbariser, LL. barbarizare. ] To make barbarous. [ 1913 Webster ]

The hideous changes which have barbarized France. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To drizzle upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. that layer of soil in a well-developed soil lying immediately below the A-horizon, and which contains deposits of organic matter leached from surface soils.
Syn. -- B horizon. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ After Dr. Auguste Boucherie, a French chemist, who invented the process. ] To impregnate with a preservative solution of copper sulphate, as timber, railroad ties, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. the deletion of all passages considered to be indecent.
Syn. -- bowdlerisation, expurgation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bowdlerized p. pr. & vb. n. Bowdlerizing ] [ After Dr. Thomas Bowdler, an English physician, who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818. ] To expurgate, as a book, by omitting or modifying the parts considered offensive; to remove morally objectionable parts; -- said of literary texts.
Syn. -- bowdlerise, expurgate, shorten, cut. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

It is a grave defect in the splendid tale of Tom Jones . . . that a Bowdlerized version of it would be hardly intelligible as a tale. F. Harrison. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Bowd`ler*i*za"tion n. -- Bowd"ler*ism n. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The breeze fly. See Breeze. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) The act, process, or result of carburizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Carburized p. pr. & vb. n. Carburizing. ] (Chem.) To combine with carbon or a carbon compound; -- said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by mingling them with a vapor of volatile hydrocarbons. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. placed in a category. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. (Med.) The operation of introducing a catheter. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Catheterized p. pr. & vb. n. Catheterizing. ] (Med.) To operate on with a catheter. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. cautèrisation. ] (Med.) The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cauterized p. pr. & vb. n. Cauterizing. ] [ L. cauterizare, Gr. &unr_;, fr. a branding iron: cf. F. cautérised.. See cauter. ] 1. To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To sear, as the conscience. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of characterizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Characterized p. pr. & vb. n. Characterizing. ] [ LL. characterizare, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. charactériser. ] 1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. [ 1913 Webster ]

European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To engrave or imprint. [ Obs. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To indicate the character of; to describe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Under the name of Tamerlane he intended to characterize King William. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To be a characteristic of; to make, or express the character of. [ 1913 Webster ]

The softness and effeminacy which characterize the men of rank in most countries. W. Irving.

5. (Chem.) to identify the structure or nature of; as, the antibiotic activity in the sample was characterized by HPLC, and proved to be erythromycin. [ PJC ]

Syn. -- To describe; distinguish; mark; designate; style; particularize; entitle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. stated precisely; -- of the meaning of words or concepts. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. cicatrisant, properly p. pr. of cicatriser. ] (Med.) A medicine or application that promotes the healing of a sore or wound, or the formation of a cicatrix. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. cicatrisation. ] (Med.) The process of forming a cicatrix, or the state of being cicatrized. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cicatrized p. pr. & vb. n. Cicatrizing. ] [ Cf. F. cicatriser, fr. cicatrice, L. cicatrix, scar. ] (Med.) To heal or induce the formation of a cicatrix in, as in wounded or ulcerated flesh. Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Med.) To heal; to have a new skin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. to provide with computers; as, Our office is fully computerized now. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. to to store in a computer; as, a computerized dictionary. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. to cause (a function) to be carried out by a computer or computers; as, They computerized their order processing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. stored, processed, or analyzed by computer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. placed and transported in a container{ 2 }. [ PJC ]

v. i. to happen at the same time.
Syn. -- co-occur. [ WordNet 1.5 ]