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Definition of Dematerialise

1. Verb. Become immaterial; disappear.

Definition of Dematerialise

1. Verb. (alternative spelling of dematerialize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Dematerialise

1. To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics. "Dematerialising matter by stripping if of everything which . . . Has distinguished matter." (Milman) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Dematerialise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Globalisation and the Environment: Perspectives from OECD and Dynamic Non by Chris Chung (1998)
"The answer is “We need to dematerialise asfast as we grow.” Here the word “dematerialise” denotes measures that reduce the content of energy, ..."

2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1903)
"“He couldn't dematerialise himself if he wanted to, any more than I could,” he asserted with emphasis. “Shall we then enquire respecting the Empire? ..."

3. Some Notable Hamlets of the Present Time: Sarah Bernhardt, Henry Irving by Clement Scott (1900)
"Mr. Beerbohm Tree makes an attempt to dematerialise the spirit by slow music and the "held chord." Very early in the play Mr. Tree emphasises his special ..."

4. A Sienese Painter of the Franciscan Legend by Bernard Berenson (1909)
"Giotto's art, as we have already seen, would not dematerialise the object of vision—quite the contrary—and for that reason, ..."

5. The Life of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim, known by the name by Franz Hartmann (1896)
"Menstruating witches especially may dissolve (dematerialise) bodies by the power of their imagination. They make a figure of wax representing the person ..."

6. Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology by Wilhelm Max Wundt (1907)
"... however attenuated this matter may become in the effort to dematerialise it. Plato was the first among the Greeks to separate mind from body. ..."

7. Architecture of Instruction and Delight: A Socio-historical Analysis of by Pieter van Wesemael (2001)
"... that tended to dematerialise with the development of modern presentation technologies in the course of the twentieth century. The visualisation of the ..."

8. Apollonius of Tyana, and Other Essays by Thomas Whittaker (1906)
"... having adopted the idea of an opposition of nature between soul (^"X,)) ar)d body, must a fortiori dematerialise " spirit." Their device, we see, ..."

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