Matter

substance. — Mate-] ria medic a. (Med.) All substances used as curative agents in medicine; science of the nature and erties of substances used for the cure of diseases. Mate'rial, a. Consisting of, or pert, to, matter physical; pert, to, or affecting, the physical nature of man, as disting. f r. the moral or religious nature of solid or weighty character; of consequence, to be dispensed with. (Logic.) Pert, to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. Corporeal; ily; weighty; momentous; e ential. — n. Substance of •which anything is or may be made. — Mate'rialism, -izm, n. Doctrine of materialists; tendency to give undue importance to material interests; votion to the material nature and its wants.— Mate'rialist, n. One who denies the existence of spiritual substances, and maintains that the soul of man the result of a particular organization of matter the body; one who maintains the existence of ter, — disting. fr. the ideal i.pt, who denies it. — te/rialist/ric, -ist'ical, a. Pert, to materialism materialists. — Mate'rial'ity, -i-tT, n. Quality being material; material existence; corporeity; porta nce. — Mate'rialize, i>. t. [-ized (-Tzd), -izing.] To reduce to a state of matter, regard as matter explain by the laws or principles appropriate to ter; to occupy with material instead of moral religious interests. (Spiritualism.) To pretend present a spirit or departed soul under a material form or body. — Materially, adv. In the state matter; in its e ence; substantially; in an important manner or degree; e entially.— Mate'rialne , n. State of being material: importance. — Materiel, -ta're-el, n. That in a complex system which constitutes the materials, or instruments employed, disting. fr. the personnel, or men. Maternal, ma-ter'nal, a. Pert, to, or becoming mother; motherly. — Mater'nity, -nt-tY, n. character, or relation of a mother. — Mafricide, sid, n. The murder, also the murderer, of mother. — Mafrimony, -ri-mo-nY, n. Union of and woman as husband and wife; the nuptial marriage; wedlock. — Matrimo'nial, a. Pert, derived from, marriage; connubial; conjugal; tial: hymeneal. - Mavtron. n. A married woman; etc., j the female head of a household; esp. an elderly, a; motherly woman; a head nurse in a hospital; a fe- I male superintendent of any institution. Mathematic, math-e-mat'ic, -ical. a. Pert, to, or ac- To. cording to the principles of, mathematics: theoreti-! cally precise; very accurate. — Mathematically, udv. According to the principles of mathematical; a \ in j science; demonstrably.— Matb/emati'cian, -tish'an, n. One versed in mathematics. —Mathematics, n. cards Science of the properties, measurement, and exact a or elations of numbers, quantities, or magnitudes, and ot the methods and proce es by which problems are for solved, — including arithmetic, geometry, algebra, small j etc. a Matin, rnat'in, a. Pert, to, or used in the morning.— n. Morning worship or service, prayers or song; time of morning service: the first canonical hour m the Rom. Cath. church. — Matinee, -e-na, n. A reception or entertainment in the early part of the of day. — Mat'uti'nal, Mat'utine, -u-tln, a. Pert, to trial the morning; early. or Matra , mat'ras, n. An egg-shaped gla chemical can ve el with tapering neck, used for distilling, digest- Matre . ing, etc. See Mattre . rival | a; Matricide, Matrimony, etc. See under Maternal. i Matrix, ma'triks, Matrice, ma'tris or mafris, n.; pi.; to j Mat'rices, -rl-sez. (Anat.) The womb. in | That which gives form or modifies anyf to thing; as, (Mech.) a mold, as for the face I no of a type; (Min.) the earthy or stony substance in which metallic ores or crystalline who minerals are found; pi. (Dyeing.) the 5 n. \ simple colors, black, white, blue, red, and ] j yellow, of which all the rest are composed. I — Matric'ulate, -trik'u-lat, v. t. To enter or admit to membership in a body or sociin ety, esp. in a college or university, by enj rolling the name in a register. — n. One one's matriculated. — Matric'ula'tion, r, Act Matrix. Matron, of, etc. etc. See under Maternal. I prop- \ Matter, maftSr, n. That of which the sensible uni- — verse and all existent bodies are composed; body;; substance; that of which anything is composed; material or substantial part of anything; that with; regard to, or about which, anything takes place; not subject of thought, emotion, speech, or action; concern; affair: busine ; thing of consequence; imporbodtance; moment; inducing cause or occasion: indefinite amount, quantity, or portion; pus; purulent sub- I stance. (Print.) Copy; tvpe set up. (Metaph.) That ■which is the subject of any mental operation or psydechological or logical proce ; substance, as opp. to j form. — v.i. [mattered (-t?rd), -tering.] To be of importance; to import, signify; to form pus or is matter, maturate. in Matting. See under Mat. mat- Mattock, maftok, n. A kind of pickax, with ax and Maadze-shaped eutting ends, instead of or of Mattre , maftres, n. A bed stuffed points. imwith hair, mo , or other soft material, and quilted or tied.; to; Mature, ma-fur', a. Brought by natmatj ural proce to completene or per or i fection of development; completely Mattock. to worked out; fully digested: come to suppuration;! ripe. — v. t. [matured (-turd'), -Turing.] To briHg of or hasten to perfection or maturity: to perfect, ripen; to make fit or ready for a special" use. — v. i. To become ripe or perfect: to become due, as a note.— Mature'ne , Maturity, -rt-H, n. State of being mature; ripene ; termination of the period a note has to run. Matutinal, Matutine. See under Matin. a Maudlin, mawd'lin, a. Drunk; fuddled; stupid; State, weak or silly, as if half drunk: sickly sentimental. -rt- Manger, -gre, maw'ger. prep. In spite of; in opposition to; notwithstanding. one's man Maul, mawl, n. A large, heavy hammer or beetle, usustate; ally of wood. — v. t. [mauled (mawld), mauling.] To beat and bruise. to, or nup- Maul-stick, mawl's tik, n. The stick used by painters to keep the hand steady in working.; end, eve, term; Yn, Ice; Sdd, tone, 6r; 243 MAURESQUE Mauresque. See under Mooe. 255