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materialize, v.|məˈtɪərɪəlaɪz|
[f. material a. + -ize.]
1. trans. To make material or represent as material; to give or ascribe a material existence to; to invest with material attributes.
1710Addison Tatler No. 154 ⁋6 Virgil..having with wonderful Art and Beauty materializ'd (if I may so call it) a Scheme of abstracted Notions. 1713Steele Guardian No. 172 ⁋4 By this means we materialize our ideas, and make them as lasting as the ink and paper. 1764Reid Inquiry vii. (1801) 448 These analogies will be apt to impose upon philosophers..and to lead them to materialize the mind and its faculties. 1843Hawthorne Amer. Note-Bks. (1883) 333, I had the glimmering of an idea, and endeavoured to materialize it in words. 1848R. I. Wilberforce Doctr. Incarnation iii. (1852) 40 Those who would materialize spirit. 1883H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spir. W. ii. (1884) 76 He insists on having all things materialised before his eyes in Nature.
2. Spiritualism. To cause (a spirit, etc.) to appear in bodily form.
1880in Webster Suppl. 1881Dr. Gheist 39 Mr. Faxton firmly believed..that the spirits of the dead may become materialised. 1882Conf. Medium 46 Bunches of artificial flowers were either materialised or levitated. 1885Whittier Pr. Wks. (1889) II. 314 A Newbury minister..rode..over to Hampton to lay a ghost who had materialized himself.
b. intr. To assume a bodily form.
1884B. Matthews in Harper's Mag. May 911/1 The..ghosts..gave dark séances and manifested and materialized.
c. transf. To come into perceptible existence; to become actual fact; to ‘come off’ (orig. U.S. in journalistic use).
1885Miss Murfree Proph. Gt. Smoky Mount. i. 18 Some fifteen or twenty hounds that suddenly materialized among the bee-hives and the althea bushes. 1887Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 12 Dec. 2/6 That attack upon the Interstate Commerce law, which was predicted to occur as soon as Congress met, does not materialize. 1891Blackw. Mag. May 741 Year after year passed and these promises failed to materialise. 1898Spectator 23 July 106 The Protestant revolters from the Unionist party failed, as the Americans say, to materialise, but instead appeared an angry crowd of Irishmen. 1900Ibid. 6 Oct. 445 Out of the mist of notes and protocols..a policy seems gradually to be materialising.
3. trans. To make materialistic. Also intr. to favour materialistic views.
1820[see materializing]. 1836Fraser's Mag. XIII. 249 The public mind is not yet so thoroughly materialised by long dealing with..exact sciences [etc.]. 1840Gladstone Ch. Princ. 182 Those who materialise in religion. 1842Mrs. Gore Fascin. 144 A soul materialized by gluttony. 1866Liddon Bampt. Lect. iv. (1875) 185 There is in man unhappily a tendency to materialize spiritual truth. 1882M. Arnold Irish Ess., etc. 121 The system..tends to materialize our upper class, vulgarize our middle class, brutalize our lower class.
Hence maˈterialized ppl. a., maˈterializing vbl. n. (attrib.) and ppl. a. Also maˈterializer, one who materializes.
1820Ranken Hist. France VIII. iv. 370 The Epicurean or materialising tendencies of his immediate predecessor Gassendi. 1824New Monthly Mag. X. 82 These materializers of the airy nothings of the mind. 1852A. Jameson Leg. Madonna (1857) 184 This materialised theology. 1874Gladstone in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 677 The materializing tendencies of the age. 1882Conf. Medium 44 Materialised spirits can vanish like a flash of lightning. Ibid. 48 This is the first materialising séance that my friend has ever attended. 1898Watts-Dunton Aylwin ii. iv, The gold which modern society finds to be more precious than..all that was held precious in less materialised times. |