Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CRYS-TAL-IZ-A'TION, n. [from crystalize.]

1. The act or process by which the parts of a solid body, separated by the intervention of a fluid or by fusion, again coalesce or unite, and form a solid body. If the process is slow and undisturbed, the particles assume a regular arrangement, each substance taking a determinate and regular form, according to its natural laws; but if the process is rapid or disturbed, the substance takes an irregular form. This process is the effect of refrigeration or evaporation. – Lavoisier. Kirwan.
2. The mass or body formed by the process of crystalizing. – Woodward.