Verb (used with object) : to crystallize an idea.    From Dictionary.com. 

“Moping herself to death”: the phrase crystallised in his brain with such suddenness that he said it aloud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maurice Guest] Reference

This word crystallised everything I had been feeling for years.    From Wordnik.com.  [openDemocracy] Reference

Labour trouble in Great Britain turns wholly upon the idea crystallised in the one word "profiteer.".    From Wordnik.com.  [War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war] Reference

She noticed also that the sugar was of the 'crystallised' kind, and was in a curiously chiselled silver bowl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Sister] Reference

Rice starch 0.046 crystallised at once by 'sowing.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900] Reference

The mercury fulminate is then crystallised from hot water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference

Swedish filter paper 3.0 crystallised at once by 'sowing.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900] Reference

That moment was crystallised in his infamous "Rubicon" speech in.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

When they stopped in the shade of the chateau, it had crystallised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salvage for the Saint]

Once the pleadings were closed the issues would be crystallised and defined.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

For me, this moment crystallised the tension running throughout the whole saga.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

Thick gobbets of crystallised glass, a sheet laminate atop the torn up concrete.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forsaken] Reference

The outpost line of nine months ago had crystallised into the usual trench system.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference

Hundreds of yeas ago crude sugar was crystallised in pots, a stage known as potting.    From Wordnik.com.  [3 Packaging materials] Reference

If you want to put Obama's politics in a nutshell, de Carvalho crystallised it thus.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

In Britain our mother tongue has crystallised long since into set forms and phrases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by English Authors: the Sea] Reference

The factor took the beautiful thing in his hands, and the purpose in his mind crystallised.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference

Masses of crystallised limestone grew from the floor in every shape that fancy could picture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference

The closing arguments crystallised the issues in dispute but did little to sort out the confusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It exhibits double refraction, and is a crystallised mineral, brittle, and showing a green streak.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones] Reference

For every 100 c.c. of plating solution about 7 grms. of dry crystallised silver nitrate are required.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Laboratory Arts] Reference

As they began to run, the bellowing crystallised itself into two urgent syllables in Descartes 'voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salvage for the Saint]

Efforts to bring about an African renewal have crystallised into the New Partnership for Africa's Development.    From Wordnik.com.  [A new type of partnership] Reference

The events at Bisho had crystallised Azapo's views on an united front and it was now necessary for the ANC, PAC and.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Thus his scheme of reform crystallised into definite shape, and his call to the prophetic office became a fixed idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mohammed, The Prophet of Islam] Reference

This crystallised in a remarkable civil uprising termed the Intifada, the likes of which had not previously been seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [CONTENTS:] Reference

A new formulation began to emerge and it was crystallised in the Ready to Govern document in 1992 and the RDP in 1993.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Freedom Charter in 2001] Reference

It was in South Africa that not only his philisophy of life but his attitude to the social problems of India crystallised.    From Wordnik.com.  [GANDHI AND SOUTH AFRICA] Reference

But the atmosphere was thick with suspicions which later historians have crystallised into facts according to their sympathies.    From Wordnik.com.  [England under the Tudors] Reference

Fruit to be glazed with sugar, as well as that on which the sugar is to be crystallised, is allowed to soak from 2 to 8 months in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

A solution of pure crystallised nitrate of silver in distilled water is made up to a strength of 125 grams of the salt per litre.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Laboratory Arts] Reference

The Act was effectively guillotined and hurried through with minimal debate before opposition crystallised in the English parliament.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

Now the process seems to be known only in that particular form in which granulated carbide is treated with crystallised sodium carbonate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use] Reference

Then with a leap of her breath, half-sigh, half-exultation, the knowledge of what had happened to her crystallised into clear significance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon out of Reach] Reference

It's something that has been playing on my mind for some time now and the current state of this once great country has crystallised it out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference