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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
canalise .
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Examples
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It canalises African labour to centres of cheap labour on the mines and farms.
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Though the ULTIMATE state of the universe may be its vital and psychical extinction, there is nothing in physics to interfere with the hypothesis that the PENULTIMATE state might be the millennium -- in other words a state in which a minimum of difference of energy-level might have its exchanges so skillfully canalises that a maximum of happy and virtuous consciousness would be the only result.
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