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i. & t. [MATTER, s.] A. Intransitive : 1. Ord . Lang .: To be of moment, consequence, or importance; to signify. "To a man of virtue and honor, indeed, this mattered little." Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xvii. 2. Med.: To form pus; to collect, as matter in an absce . "The herpes beneath mattered , and were dried up with common epuloticks." - Wiseman: Surgery, bk. i., ch. xvii. *B. Trans.: To regard, to care for, to mind. "He did not matter cold nor hunger."-H. Brooke : Fool of Quality , i. 91.