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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RE'ALIZING, ppr.
1. Bringing into actual being; converting into real estate; impressing as a reality; feeling as one's own or in its real force; rendering tangible or effective.
2. a. That makes real, or that brings home as a reality; as a realizing view of eternity.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Realize Re"al*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Realized; p. pr. & vb. n. Realizing.] [Cf. F. r['e]aliser.] 1. To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to accomplish; as, to realize a scheme or project. 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Realizing Re"al*i`zing, a. Serving to make real, or to impress on the mind as a reality; as, a realizing view of the danger incurred. -- Re"al*i`zing*ly, adv.