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Webster 1913 Edition

Materialize

Ma-te′ri-al-ize

,
Verb.
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.

Ma-te′ri-al-ize

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape.
[Colloq.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Materialize

MATE'RIALIZE

,
Verb.
T.
To reduce to a state of matter; also, to regard as matter.

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materialize

materialize

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Verb

materialize ‎(third-person singular simple present materializes, present participle materializing, simple past and past participle materialized)

  1. (transitive) To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
    • Epes Sargent
      It is asserted that in a series of sittings extending through several months a female spirit form, temporarily materialized and not distinguishable from a human being, repeatedly came from a cabinet into the light […]
  2. (intransitive) To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.
  3. (transitive) To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.

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