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.
Ma*te"ri*al*ize, v. i. To appear
as a material form; to take substantial shape. [Colloq.]
