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/mətˈɪriəlˌaɪz/ Listen

verb

Materialize v. t. (past & past part. materialized; pres. part. materializing)

To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects. "Having with wonderful art and beauty materialized, if I may so call it, a scheme of abstracted notions, and clothed the most nice, refined conceptions of philosophy in sensible images."

To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.

To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to materialize thought.

(Spiritualism) To make visable in, or as in, a material form; said of spirits. "A female spirit form temporarily materialized, and not distinguishable from a human being."

Materialize v. i.

To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape. (Colloq.)

To come into existence; as, the promised donations never materialized.

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Etymology of 'Materialize'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Materialize" Quotes from Famous Books

... by and the promised arms and reinforcements for Gen. Spier failed to materialize, he became restless and disheartened. The United States authorities had seized all of the arms and ammunition that could be discovered, and the fact was forced on the deluded General's mind that if he did not leave Canada soon a strong ...

— Troublous Times in Canada - A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870 • John A. Macdonald

... herself and her situation. That was a happy evening for Juana, and her happiness was increased when Diego told her he would not be obliged to leave again for some weeks, unless the outbreak that was feared should materialize ...

— Old Mission Stories of California • Charles Franklin Carter

... which I am afraid I cannot impart, to linger in this effort to materialize his presence from the fading memories of the past. I am afraid I can as little impart a due sense of what he spiritually was to my knowledge. It avails nothing for me to say that I think no man of my years and desert had ever so true and constant a friend. ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... use salt water penetration from downstream would take place as fresh water was withdrawn above and not replaced. Studies on a mathematical model of the estuary indicate that under conditions that could materialize, this would make the water at the intake too salty for use. A barrier dam across the entire estuary at one or another point in the freshwater section could prevent such penetration, but would be hugely expensive and undoubtedly more obtrusive on a much-used ...

— The Nation's River - The Department of the Interior Official Report on the Potomac • United States Department of the Interior

... that would not be necessary. Terra seemed uninhabited. We had seen no cities as we circumnavigated the globe. Had intelligent life-forms failed as yet to materialize on this verdant world? We assumed that fact, in our joyous eagerness to feel the good ...

— Walls of Acid • Henry Hasse

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