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. --W. Irving.
We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis,
weighting a single grain against the globe of earth.
--Glanvill.
2. 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.
Many coincidences . . . soon begin to appear in them
[Greek inscriptions] which realize ancient history
to us. --Jowett.
We can not realize it in thought, that the object .
. . had really no being at any past moment. --Sir W.
Hamilton.
3. To convert into real property; to make real estate of; as,
to realize his fortune.
4. To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the
result of plans and efforts; to gain; to get; as, to
realize large profits from a speculation.
Knighthood was not beyond the reach of any man who
could by diligent thrift realize a good estate.
--Macaulay.
5. To convert into actual money; as, to realize assets.