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/mətˈɪriəlˌaɪz/ Listen

verb

Materialize v. t. (past & past part. materialized; pres. part. materializing)

To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects. "Having with 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."

To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.

To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to materialize thought.

(Spiritualism) 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."

Materialize v. i.

To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape. (Colloq.)

To come into existence; as, the promised donations never materialized.

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Etymology of 'Materialize'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Materialize" Quotes from Famous Books

... as I did not feel at liberty to ask you to come to my studio, the best I could do was to study you when we met, and I multiplied my chances of doing so. I carefully avoided knowing your name and social position, for I feared to bring you down from the ideal and materialize you." ...

— The Deputy of Arcis • Honore de Balzac

... conscientious "documentation"; and yet, for all their care, their personages do not abide in the memory as living beings. We do not see them as individuals, but as types; and, strangely enough, the authors, despite the remarkable skill with which they materialize many of their impressions, are content to deliver their characters to us as so many illustrations of a species. Thus Marthe Mance in Charles Demailly is un type, l'incarnation d'un age, de son sexe et d'un role de son temps; Langibout is le type ...

— Rene Mauperin • Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt

... samples, of the best that modern science can offer, to rent for $300 to $500 a year. Let any one who loves his kind, if he have a talent this way, not wrap it in a napkin, but give it to the builder and the philanthropist to materialize. Now is the time to set standards for the next thirty years. The electric car is opening new country as never before. Who will ...

— The Cost of Shelter • Ellen H. Richards

... there was in his face and bearing the subtly but surely distinguishing quality that comes only with the strength a man gets when his fellows acknowledge his leadership, when he has seen the creations of his brain materialize in work accomplished. Every successful man has this look, and shows it according to his nature—the arrogant arrogantly; the ...

— The Second Generation • David Graham Phillips

... their business problems, these social problems will be too largely left to the women;[7] for without the sympathetic understanding and hearty cooperation of their husbands, rural women will find that their new social ideals will materialize but slowly. Here again, such family organizations as the Grange, the Church, and Farm and Home Bureau, in which community activities engage both men ...

— The Farmer and His Community • Dwight Sanderson

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