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Definition of Generalises
1. generalise [v] - See also: generalise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Generalises
Literary usage of Generalises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Elementary Treatise on Pure Geometry: With Numerous Examples by John Wellesley Russell (1893)
"Since all circles pass through the circular points, a circle generalises into
... Since the line at infinity touches a parabola, a parabola generalises into ..."
2. Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure, and Other Essays by Edward Carpenter (1895)
"... which of course is also a falsity—it generalises and generalises this abstraction
till at last it reaches a perfectly generalised absurdity and thing ..."
3. History of Europe, from the Fall of Napoleon, in 1815, to the Accession of by Archibald Alison (1854)
"... it is not that he generalises too little, but that he generalises too soon.
No man, since the days of Montesquieu, has equalled him in the depth of the ..."
4. The formation of Christendom by Thomas William Allies (1875)
"All which meets the senses he generalises under the conception of Matter; all
which thinks he generalises under the conception of Mind, as Spinoza did after ..."
5. A Treatise on the Principles of Chemistry by Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir (1884)
"The first formula generalises the reactions of alcohol, the second generalises
the reactions of methyl ether; thus (*) CH3 CH3 CHj+K=CHs+H, II OH OK one, ..."
6. A Treatise on the Principles of Chemistry by Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir (1889)
"The first formula generalises the reactions of alcohol, the second generalises
the reactions of methyl ether : thus (a) H3C-CH2-OH + K = H3C-CH2-OK + H; ..."
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