Ma*te`ri*al*i*za"tion (?), n. The act of materializing, or the state of
being materialized.
Ma*te"ri*al*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Materialized (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Materializing (?).] [Cf. F. matérialiser.] 1. 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.
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) 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.
Ma*te"ri*al*ize, v. i. To appear as a material form; to take
substantial shape. [Colloq.]
Ma*te"ri*al*ly, adv. 1. In the state of matter.
I do not mean that anything is separable from a body by fire that
was not materially preëxistent in it.
Boyle.