Word Meanings - CRYSTALLIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.

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• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• ASSUMEDLY
  By assumption.
• ASSUMER
  One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes. W. D. Whitney.
• CRYSTALLINE
  1. Consisting, or made, of crystal. Mount, eagle, to my palace crystalline. Shak. 2. Formed by crystallization; like crystal in texture. Their crystalline structure. Whewell. 3. Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline,
• ASSUMED
  1. Supposed. 2. Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character.
• CAUSERIE
  Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.
• ASSUME
  1. To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly. Trembling they stand while Jove assumes the throne. Pope. The god assumed his native form again. Pope. 2. To take for granted, or
• CAUSER
  One who or that which causes.
• CAUSELESS
  1. Self-originating; uncreated. 2. Without just or sufficient reason; groundless. My fears are causeless and ungrounded. Denham.
• CAUSE
  A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action. 5. Any subject of discussion or debate; matter; question; affair in general. What counsel give
• ASSUMENT
  A patch; an addition; a piece put on. John Lewis .
• CAUSEWAY; CAUSEY
  A way or road rasid above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground. But that broad causeway will direct your way. Dryden. The other way Satan went down The causey to Hell-gate. Milton. (more
• CAUSELESSNESS
  The state of being causeless.
• CAUSEUSE
  A kind of sofa for two person. A tête-a-tête.
• SEMICRYSTALLINE
  Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composed partly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.
• HYPOCRYSTALLINE
  Partly crystalline; -- said of rock which consists of crystals imbedded in a glassy ground mass.
• MICROCRYSTALLINE
  Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.
• PHANEROCRYSTALLINE
  Distinctly crystalline; -- used of rocks. Opposed to Ant: cryptocrystalline.
• UNCAUSED
  Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.
• HOLOCRYSTALLINE
  Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline.
• CRYPTOCRYSTALLINE
  Indistinctly crystalline; -- applied to rocks and minerals, whose state of aggregation is so fine that no distinct particles are visible, even under the microscope.
• BECAUSE
  1. By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that. Milton. 2. In order that; that. And the multitude rebuked them because they should hold their peace. Matt. xx. 31. Because of, by reason of, on account of. Because of these
• REASSUME
  To assume again or anew; to resume. -- Re`as*sump"tion, n.
• CONCAUSE
  A joint cause. Fotherby.