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Materialize \Ma*te"ri*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Materialized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Materializing}.] [Cf. F.
mat['e]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.
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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.
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2. To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or
principles which are appropriate to matter.
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3. To cause to assume a character appropriate to material
things; to occupy with material interests; as, to
materialize thought.
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4. (Spiritualism) To make visable in, or as in, a material
form; -- said of spirits.
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A female spirit form temporarily materialized, and
not distinguishable from a human being. --Epes
Sargent.
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Materialize \Ma*te"ri*al*ize\, v. i.
1. To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape.
[Colloq.]
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2. To come into existence; as, the promised donations never
materialized.
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