Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
crystallized \crystallized\ adj.
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smoothly coated with crystals of sugar; -- used especially of fruits.
Syn: candied, glac['e], glac['e]ed.
caused to form into crystals; hence, in a crystalline form.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, past participle adjective from crystallize. Of fruit, etc., from 1875.
Wiktionary
1 having definitive and fixed form, solidified. 2 being crystalline, in the form of crystals. v
(en-past of: crystallize)
WordNet
adj. having become fixed and definite in form; "distinguish between crystallized and uncrystallized opinion"- Psychological Abstracts [syn: crystallised] [ant: uncrystallized]
having both internal structure and external form of a crystal; "quartz crystal is perfectly crystallized" [syn: crystalised]
Wikipedia
"Crystallized" is a song by American alternative rock band Young the Giant. On December 10, 2013, it was released as the second single from the band's second studio album, Mind over Matter. The song debuted at number 27 on the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart.
A music video for the song, directed by Elliott Sellers, was released onto YouTube on December 8, 2013.
Usage examples of "crystallized".
Puzzled by this, Sanders walked on, and then saw that Aragon was taking the craft down-river to the point of the bank where the crystallized body of Matthieu had been cast up two months earlier.
She had a passion for crystallized ginger and creme fraiche, which was hard to find anywhere else, and we both had a nostalgia for smoked turkey and Smithfield ham, which Mother, a Virginian, had seen to it were staples of our childhood.
No airless, germless, hygienic void with methane as gas or crystallized at greater astronomical units from the sun.
The missing heart band from the gimmal ring was a small thing, but it had crystallized vague suspicions into a firm belief that Helen Seaton had been murdered.
Inulin is allied to starch, and its crystallized camphor is separable into true helenin, and alantin camphor.
And the colors wove into a tapestry that blurred, steadied, and crystallized into a vision so complete in every detail that Kirin shrank back a step, as if he stood before a yawning door through which a mis-step might hurl him to spinning worlds below.
Outwardly this formation resembled quartz in that it crystallized in the trigonal trapezohedral class of the rhombohedral subsystem of hexagonal symmetry.
Junk Moon had crystallized, successors had to be chosen, and fresh scientists were arriving daily, representing any discipline that might shine light on Amphora and how to destroy it.
The best-known locality is Fronolen near Tremadoc in North Wales, where crystals of the thin tabular habit occur with crystallized quartz, albite and anatase on the walls of crevices in diabase.
On the holographic display of the orbital linear accelerator, a small quad of engine thrusters pulsed twice, sending a tiny silver cone of crystallized exhaust into space.
Ashif and off into the endless night: odd small micrometeorites, crystallized carbon of some sort, very hard, very tiny, and mixed up with other meteors.
She enlarged the garden Rhadampsicus had made, adding borders of crystallized ammonia and a sort of walkway with a hedge of monoclinic sulphur which glittered beautifully in the starlight.
It showed at once a complete change of formation: the sides were painted with clays of variegated colours, crystallized lime and porphyritic conglomerates, tinted mauve-purple as if by manganese.
This is how the Stepping Stone approach crystallized into a methodical system involving roster improvement.
It works best with Australian crystallized stem ginger, which comes packaged in cubes, and a rich sweetened chocolate such as Callebaut of Belgium, available in bricks.