What is "canalised"

Usage examples of "canalised".

It was equally typical of him -- more precisely, perhaps, it was typical of the rigorous mental conditioning he had undergone in his long training -- that his thoughts about the future were rigidly canalised, channelled along one all-exclusive, particular line of thought, towards the achievement of one specific objective.

In future, the men of reason must see that the madness of the world's maniacs is canalised into proper channels, is made to do useful work, like a mountain torrent driving a dynamo.

On arrival, my road had crossed a bridge over a stream, newly canalised to control it, then petered out into a bald new service track that would run around the extended palace.

I followed the course of the canalised stream, and sat for a long time on a shaded bench near the ornamental pond, where some waterfowl with clipped wings were diving and splashing noisily.