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De - Pt| English Dictionary: materialize | by the DICT Development Group |
| 3 results for materialize | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Materialize \Ma*te"ri*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Materialized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Materializing}.] [Cf. F. mat[82]rialiser.] 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. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Materialize \Ma*te"ri*al*ize\, v. i. To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape. [Colloq.] | |
