materializIng

[English mater i a liz ( e ); -ing.] Directed or tending toward materialism. ma-tër-I-al-ly, adv. [Eng. material; -ly.] from Low Lat. maternal is , from Lat. maternus = motherly, from mater =a mother; Sp. & Port. mater nal ; Ital. maternale .] Of or pertaining to a mother; becoming or befitting a mother; motherly. "[She] long his lo with tears maternal mourned." Hoole: Orlando Furioso , i. ma-ter-nal-ly, adv . [Eng. maternal ; -ly.] In a maternal or motherly manner; like a mother. ma-ter-ni-ty, s. [Fr. maternité, from Latin maternitatem , acc. of mater nit as , from maternus = maternal; Ital. maternità ; Sp. maternidad .] The quality, state, condition, or relation of a mother. maternity-hospital, s . A lying-in hospital. mate-ship, s. [Eng. mate (1); -ship.] Companionship. "I sat among them equally In fellowship and mateship , as a child." E. B. Browning: Aurora Leigh , vii. măt-fěl-on, s. [Wel. madfelen .] Bot .: A plant, Centaurea nigra ; knapweed. *math, mat he, s. [A. S. math , math , from máwan to mow.] A mowing; a crop gathered by mowing. (Chiefly in composition, as aftermath .) "The first mowing thereof for the king's use is wont to be sooner than the common mat he."-Bp. Hall: Hard Texts; Amos vii. Math-a-ring, s . pl . [See def.] Church Hist.: An order of friars, founded by St. John of Matha in the thirteenth century for the redemption of Christian captives. [TRINITARIAN, II.]