What is "crystallised"

Usage examples of "crystallised".

Men have to gather it,--the little store they possess is soon crystallised into hardness by Reason,--but women have enough in themselves usually to last a lifetime.

Yet, for a moment, as the embittered mind gabbled through the string of words that long habit had crystallised into an empty formula, Mother noticed that the lines of grey grew slightly clearer.

The words seemed written down in dew, but the dew crystallised into fairy patterns that instantly flew about the world upon their mission of deliverance.

For I had a sudden strong conviction that it meant that the universe and world I had been dreaming up all day had suddenly crystallised into physical existence somewhere.

For now I felt more strongly than before that queer conviction that my day’s dreaming had crystallised into solid reality.

How did it come that my imaginings had never crystallised into reality before, but had only just begun to do so?

Not hard to find is that symbol and relic of your days of wonder, for truly, it is but the stable and eternal gem wherein all that wonder sparkles crystallised to light your evening path.

This loveliness, moulded, crystallised, and polished by years of memory and dreaming, is your terraced wonder of elusive sunsets.

His words crystallised the thought which had entered her head when first he had whisked her from under Sir Mar ma duke's nose.

Something in her proud, honourable soul had crystallised out hard as rock.

Everybody had something gorgeous, and besides, there were pounds of unknown sweets: Turkish delight, crystallised pineapple, and such-like things which, the children thought, only the splendour of London could provide.

Especially should one arouse them to such living interest while they are still young and plastic, before they have crystallised and hardened into the conventional marionettes of polite society.

As the spring advanced and the nights became shorter, it crystallised into certainty.