CRYSTALLISED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crystallised mean? 

• CRYSTALLISED (adjective)
  The adjective CRYSTALLISED has 1 sense:

1. having become fixed and definite in form

  Familiarity information: CRYSTALLISED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRYSTALLISED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having become fixed and definite in form

Synonyms:

crystallised; crystallized

Context example:

distinguish between crystallized and uncrystallized opinion

 Context examples 

There have been two murders, a vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To accomplish the change was like a reflux of being, and this when the plasticity of youth was no longer his; when the fibre of him had become tough and knotty; when the warp and the woof of him had made of him an adamantine texture, harsh and unyielding; when the face of his spirit had become iron and all his instincts and axioms had crystallised into set rules, cautions, dislikes, and desires.

(White Fang, by Jack London)