01 v. t. To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.
imp. & p. p.
Materialized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Materializing
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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.” — Tatler.
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To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
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To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to materialize thought.
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To make visable in, or as in, a material form; -- said of spirits.(Spiritualism)“A female spirit form temporarily materialized, and not distinguishable from a human being.” — Epes Sargent.