Materialize
Pronunciation : Ma*te"ri*al*ize
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [Cf. F. mat?rialiser.]
Definition : 1. To invest wich material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects. Having wich 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. Tatler.
2. To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
3. To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to materialize thought.
4. (Spiritualism)
Defn: 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. Epes Sargent.
t. [imp. & p. p. Materialized; p. pr. & vb. n. Materializing.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Ma*te"ri*al*ize
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape. [Colloq.]
i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913