单词 | immaterialize |
释义 | immaterializev. 1. transitive. To render or conceive of as immaterial or incorporeal. Cf. dematerialize v. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > immaterial [verb (transitive)] > render immaterial rarefy1600 immaterializea1711 unearth1765 unsense1895 dematerialize1899 a1711 T. Ken Hymns for Festivals in Wks. (1721) I. 401 Simon..His Body had subdu'd, That he his Flesh might immaterialize. 1800 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) I. 557 I defended Chemistry as knowingly at least as Godwin attacked it—affirmed that it united the opposite advantages of immaterializing [the] mind without destroying the definiteness of [the] Ideas. 1856 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 23 656 Our theologians immaterialize Heaven too much. 1900 G. H. Ely tr. R. de Maulde la Clavière Women of Renaissance ii. iii. 201 The raiment..in which the body was delicately and gracefully draped, served..to immaterialise it. 1965 J. H. Miller Poets of Reality ii. 57 He can neither incarnate spirit in matter, nor can he immaterialize matter until it takes on the quality of spirit. 2003 R. Dennehy in P. A. Redpath Thomistic Tapestry vi. 74 By immaterializing the sensible object in this way, the intellect becomes the object..according to its own mode of being. 2. intransitive. To become immaterial; to disappear. Cf. dematerialize v. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > become immaterial [verb (intransitive)] dematerialize1884 immaterialize1891 1891 H. D. Ward Republic without President 186 Every man who had a trap hovered over it night and day to keep the catch from mysteriously immaterializing. 1903 Med. Libr. & Hist. Jrnl. Oct. 254 The power possessed by his intelligence to immaterialize at certain times, under the influence of certain conditions, he considers as a sort of distraction. 1968 G. Blunden Charco Harbour v. 257 He met..the grey eyes of an animal which seemed to immaterialise into shadow as he looked. 2010 J. Riis in J. Eder et al. Characters in Fictional Worlds 271 [Supernatural] agents must..violate a basic assumption, for instance, they are invisible or they can immaterialize at will. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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