materialize
VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (1)materialized, materializing
- come into being; become reality“Her dream really materialized”Synonyms: happenmaterialiseOpposite dematerializeMore general happen, hapMore specific appear, come out
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: 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.— The 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 visible 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.
1. To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape. colloquial
2. To come into existence; as, the promised donations never materialized.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors