Organizing

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Organize \Or"gan*ize\ ([^o]r"gan*[imac]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Organized} ([^o]r"gan*[imac]zd); p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Organizing} ([^o]r"gan*[imac]*z[i^]ng).] [Cf. F. organiser,
     Gr. 'organi`zein. See {Organ}.]
     1. (Biol.) To furnish with organs; to give an organic
        structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of


        life; as, an organized being; organized matter; -- in this
        sense used chiefly in the past participle.
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              These nobler faculties of the mind, matter organized
              could never produce.                  --Ray.
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     2. To arrange or constitute in parts, each having a special
        function, act, office, or relation; to systematize; to get
        into working order; -- applied to products of the human
        intellect, or to human institutions and undertakings, as a
        science, a government, an army, a war, etc.
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              This original and supreme will organizes the
              government.                           --Cranch.
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     3. (Mus.) To sing in parts; as, to organize an anthem. [R.]
        --Busby.
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