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<i>A. Chalmers.</i>

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<h1>Materialist</h1> <Xpage=902>

<hw>Ma*te"ri*al*ist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>mat\'82rialiste</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who denies the existence of spiritual substances or agents, and maintains that spiritual phenomena, so called, are the result of some peculiar organization of matter.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One who holds to the existence of matter, as distinguished from the idealist, who denies it.</def>

<i>Berkeley.</i>

<h1>Materialistic, Materialistical</h1> <Xpage=902>

<hw><hw>Ma*te`ri*al*is"tic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Ma*te`ri*al*is"tic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the nature of materialism.</def>

<blockquote>But to me his very spiritualism seemed more <b>materialistic</b> than his physics. <i>C. Kingsley.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Materiality</h1> <Xpage=902>

<hw>Ma*te`ri*al"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>mat\'82rialit\'82</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The quality or state of being material; material existence; corporeity.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Importance; <as>as, the <ex>materiality</ex> of facts</as>.</def>

<h1>Materialization</h1> <Xpage=902>

<hw>Ma*te`ri*al*i*za"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.</def>

<h1>Materialize</h1> <Xpage=902>

<hw>Ma*te"ri*al*ize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Materialized</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Materializing</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>mat\'82rialiser</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To invest wich material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.</def>

<blockquote>Having wich wonderful art and beauty <b>materialized</b>, if I may so call it, a scheme of abstracted notions, and clothed the most nice, refined conceptions of philosophy in sensible images. <i>Tatler.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; <as>as, to <ex>materialize</ex> thought</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Spiritualism)</fld> <def>To make visable in, or as in, a material form; -- said of spirits.</def>

<blockquote>A female spirit form temporarily <b>materialized</b>, and not distinguishable from a human being. <i>Epes Sargent.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Ma*te"ri*al*ize</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<h1>Materially</h1> <Xpage=902>

<hw>Ma*te"ri*al*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>In the state of matter.</def>

<blockquote>I do not mean that anything is separable from a body by fire that was not <b>materially</b> pre\'89xistent in it. <i>Boyle.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>In its essence; substantially.</def>