Verb

(realiz)

To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to accomplish.

* (rfdate) (w)

We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighting a single grain against the globe of earth.

To become aware of a fact or situation.

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To cause to seem real; to impress upon the mind as actual; to feel vividly or strongly; to make one's own in apprehension or experience.

* 1887 , Sir (Arthur Conan Doyle), (A Study in Scarlet) , II:

That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.

* (rfdate), (Benjamin Jowett).

Many coincidences . . . soon begin to appear in them [Greek inscriptions] which realize ancient history to us.

* (rfdate),

We can not realize it in thought, that the object . . . had really no being at any past moment.

(business) To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get

* (rfdate) (Macaulay)

Knighthood was not beyond the reach of any man who could by diligent thrift realize a good estate.

(transitive, business, finance) To convert any kind of property into money, especially property representing investments, as shares, bonds, etc.

* (rfdate) (Washington Irving)

Wary men took the alarm, and began to realize , a word now first brought into use to express the conversion of ideal property into something real.

(transitive, business, obsolete) To convert into real property; to make real estate of.

Verb

(en verb)

To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.

To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.

* 1668 July 3, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:

He Su?pends on the?e Rea?ons, that Thomas Rue'' had granted a general Di?charge to ''Adam Mu?het'', who was his Conjunct, and ''correus debendi'', after the alleadged Service, which Di?charged ''Mu?het'', and con?equently ''Houstoun his Partner.

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To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.

* , Preface ("The Infidel Half Century"), section "In Quest of the First Cause":

The universe exists, said the father: somebody must have made it. If that somebody exists, said I, somebody must have made him. I grant that for the sake of argument, said the Oratorian.

To assent; to consent.