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Harmonize   /hˈɑrmənˌaɪz/   Listen
verb
Harmonize  v. t.  
1.
To adjust in fit proportions; to cause to agree; to show the agreement of; to reconcile the apparent contradiction of.
2.
(Mus.) To accompany with harmony; to provide with parts, as an air, or melody.


Harmonize  v. i.  (past & past part. harmonized; pres. part. harmonizing)  
1.
To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.
2.
To be in peace and friendship, as individuals, families, or public organizations.
3.
To agree in vocal or musical effect; to form a concord; as, the tones harmonize perfectly.





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"Harmonize" Quotes from Famous Books



... This does not harmonize very well with the character of Francis as we have sketched it; one can hardly imagine him preserving in his Order such profound distinctions as were at that time made between the different social ranks, but he had that true and eternal ...
— Life of St. Francis of Assisi • Paul Sabatier
... nothing ever jarred upon the guests in this house; the perfect suavity of the host and hostess forbade anything like antagonism among their friends; and though such dissimilar elements might never again harmonize, they were tranquil ...
— The Spinner's Book of Fiction • Various
... different parts of a well arranged establishment go on together, and harmonize, like the parts of a piece of music in full score, yet, in describing such an establishment, it is impossible to write like the musician, in score, and to make all the parts of the narrative advance together. Various movements, which exist together, ...
— ESSAYS, Political, Economical and Philosophical. Volume 1. • Benjamin Rumford
... not, however, necessary to sacrifice the culture of either mind or body, but to harmonize them. They can and ought to grow together. ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 61, November, 1862 • Various
... wondered at all my life," said he, "that skill of the brush dipped in color. Pictures surprise me as much as poems. Ah, men are marvellous creatures, when they are once brought to understand that they are men,—not beasts! One will take a few words and harmonize them into a song or a verse that clings to the world for ever; another will mix a few paints and dab a brush in them, and give you a picture that generation after generation shall flock to see. It is what is ...
— Thelma • Marie Corelli


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