materialization (material i zas hon)

[ spelled materialisation. materialize (ma-teri-al-iz), v.; pret. and pp. materialized, ppr. materializing. [= F. matéri aliser = It. materializzare; as material + -ize.] I. trans. 1. To give a material form or bodily existence to; make physically perceptible; embody in any manner. See II. By this means [letters] we materialize our ideas, and make them as lasting as the ink and paper, their vehicles. Guardian , No. 172. With wonderful art and beauty [Virgil has] materialized (if I may so call it) scheme of abstracted clothed the most nice, refined conceptions of philosophy in sensible images and poetical representations. Tatler, No. 115. He regarded the suggestion that the letter he described as " materialised , or reintegrated in the air" was an outcome of any concealed apparatus as "grotesquely absurd." R. Hodgson , Proc. Soc. Psych. Research, III. 262. 2. To give the character of metaphysical materialism to; render materialistic. The materializing tendencies of the former system. Milman , Hist. Latin Christianity, viii. 5. 3. To reduce to a material basis or standard; treat as pertaining only to matter; give a material character to; make material, low, coarse, sensual, etc.: as, to materialize thought, mo ma is secularity, or in the popular sense of the word terialism. J. R. Seeley, Nat. Religion, p. 225. materialist (ma-tē'ri-al-ist), n. and a. [= F. matérialiste = Sp. Pg. It. materialist a; as ma terial + -ist.] I. n. 1. One who holds or advocates any form of metaphysical materialism. He who denies spirit in man or in the universe is a per Fleming, Vocab. of Philos. fect materialist. 2. One who is absorbed by material interests; one who takes a low, material view of life. Persons who worship nothing but worldly succe , who care for nothing but wealth, or fashionable display, or Cosmic Philos., II. 433. or enjoyments. II. in trans. 1. To become material; a ume a material form; in recent spiritualistic use, to a ume, as a spirit or immaterial entity, a form which is perceptible by the senses, or one that is visible, tangible, and (in the case of supposed spirits) capable of physical exertion. But, setting aside all charlatanry, there is an overwhelming amount of evidence from people who are presumably truthful to the effect that they have actually seen persons and things materialize , as the phrase goes, out of nothing. N. A. Rev., CXLVI. 704. II. a. Of or pertaining to materialism; materialistic. The materialist view is quite as imperfect as the spiritualist view. G. H. Lewes, Hist. Philos., II. 753. materialistic (ma-teri-a-lis'tik), a. [ mate rialist + -ic.] Pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by materialism, in any sense of that word. But to me his very spiritualism seemed more material istic than his physics. Kingsley. materialistical (ma-teri-a-lis'ti-kal), a . [ ma terialistic + -al .] Same as materialistic . materiality (ma-te-ri-al'i-ti), n. [= F. maté rial ité = Sp. material i dad = Pg. mater i alidade = It. material ità , * material it a ( t- )s, material is , material: see material .] 1. The state or condition of being material; physical constitution or organization; corporeity: as, the old belief in the materiality of heat. Nor had compacted earth, nor rock, nor stone, Nor gro materiality been known. Byrom , Epistle to a Gentleman in the Temple. There has arisen the conception of a deity who, at first human in all things, has been gradually losing human materiality . H. Spencer, Univ. Prog., p. 70. 2. A material thing; material substance. Sufficient is it to remember for the present that the soul is a subtler and more refined materiality , which is thus endowed with more delicate and refined perceptions than the bodily organs. W. Wallace , Epicureanism, p. 102. 3. Material character; coarsene ; gro ne . In polygamous families the children cannot avoid suffering.. from the general debasement and mater i ality of life. S. Bowles, Our New West, p. 248. 4. The perception of material substance by the mind; that factor in cognition which is recognized as material. It is of more than psychological interest to remark how the primordial factor in materiality is thus due to the projection of a subjectively determined reaction to that ac tion of a not-self on which sense-impre ions depend an action of the not-self which, of course, is not known as such till this projection of the subjective reaction has J. Ward, Encyc. Brit., XX. 56. taken place. 5. The quality of being material; importance; e entiality: as, the materiality of testimony. Now materiality is a relative term: applied to the consequences of an act, it bore relation to pain and pleasure: 2. To take form or shape; come into per cep has not yet materialized. [Colloq.] The hail of the intruders was regarded as a challenge by some fifteen or twenty hounds that suddenly material ized among the bee-hives and the althea bushes. M. N. Murfree, Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains. Also spelled materialise. materially (ma-teri-al-i), adv. 1. With, in, by, or with reference to matter or material things; from a material point of view; physically: as, to be well provided materially; the state of the country materially considered.-2. As regards matter or substance; not formally; in itself considered. An ill intention is certainly sufficient to spoil and corrupt an act in itself materially good. South. 3. In a material manner; to an important extent or degree; e entially. It conduced materially to the security of good order. Hallam , Middle Ages, viii. 2. material-man (ma-teri-al-man"), n . One who keeps for sale the materials used in some trade, especially those used by builders. materialne (ma-te'ri-al-nes), n. The state or quality of being material; importance; e entiality. materia medic a (mā-tē'ri-ä med'i-kä). [ML. NL., medical material: materia, material, matter; medic a, fem. of medic us, medical: see medic1, medical.] 1. Medicinal agencies collectively; the various remedial substances employed in medicine.-2. That branch of medical science which treats of the various substances, natural and artificial, which are employed in the practice of medicine, and embraces an explanation of their nature and modes of action.