materialize
materialize is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
- 2.To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to materialize thought.
- 3.(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.
- 4.To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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- What is to regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter called?
- What is to cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to materialize thought called?
- What is 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 called?
- What is to appear as a material form; to take substantial shape. [Colloq.] called?
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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