matter (mater)

[ matter? For Sosianus and Sagitta were men vile and of no account, neither mattered it where they liued. Sir H. Savile, tr. of Tacitus, p. 161. To a man of virtue and honour, indeed, this mattered little. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., xvii. 21. To form pus; collect or be discharged, aş matter in an absce ; also, to discharge pus. Each slight sore matter eth . Sir P. Sidney. Earth's milk 's a ripened core, That drops from her disease, that matters from her sore. Quarles, Emblems, i. 12. II. trans. 11. To regard; care for; mind. I repulsed her once and again; but she put by my repulses, and smiled. Then I began to be angry; but she mattered that nothing at all. Bunyan , Pilgrim's Progre , p. 339. The low Land is sometimes overflown with water in the time of Harvest, yet they matter it not, but gather the crop and fetch it home wet in their Canoas. Dampier , Voyages, II. i. 25. I had rather receive Money than Letters. I don't mat ter Letters, so the Money does but come. N. Bailey , tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, I. 106. 2. To approve of. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] matterful (mat'er-ful), a. [ matterful What a sweet, unpretending, pretty-mannered, matter ful creature! Lamb, To Words worth (1815), p. 97. matterle (mat'ér-les), a . [ matter + -le .] Void of matter, substance, or significance; immaterial, either literally or figuratively; of no consequence or importance. All fine noise Of verse, meere matterle e and tinkling toies. B. Jonson, tr. of Horace's Art of Poetry. quite matterle e. Like shades 3663 matting-loom (mat'ing-löm), n . A loom in which slats are introduced into the shed to form the woof. E. H. Knight. matting-punch (mat'ing-punch), n. In metal- working, a punch with a roughened working end, used with a light hammer or mallet for matting the ground or the parts of the surface left flat between fretwork tracery, etc. For very fine work in silver or gold such punches are sometimes made by breaking with a sharp blow a bar of highly hard. The sky is only the matterle limit of vision. Boardman, Creative Week, p. 84. matter-of-course (mat'er-ov-kōrs'), a. Proceeding as a natural consequence; following naturally as a thing to be expected or about which there can be no question. I won't have that sort of matter- of -course acquiescence. T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, xxx. matter-of-fact (mat'er-ov-fakt'), a. 1. Consisting of or pertaining to facts; not fanciful, imaginative, or ideal; ordinary; commonplace: applied to things. His pa ion for matter of fact narrative sometimes be trayed him into a long relation of common incidents. Lamb, To Wilson. The common matter - of - fact world of sense and sight. Caird. The man said good morning, in a matter - of -fact way. The Century, XXXVI. 823. 2. Adhering to facts; not given to wander be yond realities; unimaginative; prosaic: ap plied to persons. IMG:content-0339.png:[blocks in formation]