symmetrizev.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 233 An air of becoming manliness..that symmetriz'd nobly with that air of distinction..with which nature had stamp'd it [sc. his face].

1786 H. Walpole Let. 28 Sept. in Corr. (1965) XXXIII. 531 With a mound of vermilion on the left side of his forehead to symmetrise with a wen on the right.

1796 E. Burke Let. to Noble Lord in Wks. (1815) VIII. 46 He would soon have supplied every deficiency, and symmetrized every disproportion.

1853 Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 735 A picturesque scene, however seemingly unsymmetrical, will be found..to be symmetrised at least aerially, by the influence of light, shade and colour.

1874 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 439 Charm of incident, grace of narrative,..majesty of eloquence,—all perfectly symmetrized with incomparable artistic skill.

1973 Sci. Amer. Jan. 111/2 This leaves one column and one row, with the poison piece at the vertex... From now on the first player ‘symmetrizes’. Whatever his opponent takes from either line, he takes equally from the other.

1966 Math. Rev. 31 36/1 (heading) Matrix applications of a quadratic identity for decomposable symmetrized tensors.

1979 Nature 22 Feb. 597/2 It is the interference between the two parts of the symmetrised wave-functions..that leads to the intensity interference.

1862 R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art 60 When the several parts of an object..present a resistance to its [sc. the mind's] synthetical or symmetrising power,—it imputes to such objects a character of force and energy, which purely symmetrical compositions do not suggest.

1854 Fraser's Mag. 49 149 The philosophic classes have never admitted that a moral change can be effected by political change, that a realized idea needs symmetrization in statute.

1890 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. Aug. 448 The larva emerges..as a symmetrical animal, but the details of the process of ‘symmetrisation’—the strongly marked character of which justifies the use of an otherwise undesirable term—are still rather obscure.