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‖ matériel|materjɛl|
[Fr.: see material a. and n.]
1. a. The ‘mechanical’ or ‘material’ portion of an art; technique. rare. b. The ‘stock-in-trade’, available means or resources, for carrying on any business or undertaking.
1814Edin. Rev. XXIV. 162 Mr. Hogg..is excellently well appointed as to what may be entitled the materiel of poetry. There is too much mere embellishment, and too little stuff or substance in his writings. 1822De Quincey Confess. 41 The quantity of esculent matériel..was little more than a roll, or a few biscuits. 1853Ruskin Stones Ven. III. vii. 212 If this be so, the question as to the materiel of education becomes singularly simplified. 1878Sir G. G. Scott Lect. Archit. I. 156 Both [forms] should be admitted on equal terms as portions of our general matériel.
2. Used as a collective term for the articles, supplies, machinery, etc. used in an army, navy, or business, as distinguished from the personnel or body of persons employed.
1827Lincoln & Lincolnsh. Cabinet 29 A more easy method of transporting the materiel for their army. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits xv. Wks. (Bohn) II. 117 The late Mr. Walter was printer of the ‘Times’, and had gradually arranged the whole materiel of it in perfect system. 1881Spectator 15 Jan. 75 The Turkish army in Epirus is in desperate straits for matériel and money. |