Material
(Ma*te"ri*al), v. t. To form from matter; to materialize. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
Materialism
(Ma*te"ri*al*ism) n. [Cf. F. matérialisme.]
1. The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets.
The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus.
Buckminster. 2. The tendency to give undue importance to material interests; devotion to the material nature and its
wants.
3. Material substances in the aggregate; matter. [R. & Obs.] A. Chalmers.
Materialist
(Ma*te"ri*al*ist) n. [Cf. F. matérialiste.]
1. One who denies the existence of spiritual substances or agents, and maintains that spiritual phenomena,
so called, are the result of some peculiar organization of matter.
2. One who holds to the existence of matter, as distinguished from the idealist, who denies it. Berkeley.
Materialistic
(Ma*te`ri*al*is"tic Ma*te`ri*al*is"tic*al) a. Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of
the nature of materialism.
But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics.
C. Kingsley. Materiality
(Ma*te`ri*al"i*ty) n. [Cf. F. matérialité.]
1. The quality or state of being material; material existence; corporeity.
2. Importance; as, the materiality of facts.
Materialization
(Ma*te`ri*al*i*za"tion) n. The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.
Materialize
(Ma*te"ri*al*ize) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Materialized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Materializing ] [Cf. F.
matérialiser.]
1. To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the
mind through the medium of material objects.
Having with wonderful art and beauty materialized, if I may so call it, a scheme of abstracted notions,
and clothed the most nice, refined conceptions of philosophy in sensible images.
Tatler. 2. To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
3. To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to
materialize thought.
4. (Spiritualism) To make visable in, or as in, a material form; — said of spirits.
A female spirit form temporarily materialized, and not distinguishable from a human being.
Epes Sargent.
