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Definition of Dematerialize

1. Verb. Become immaterial; disappear.

Definition of Dematerialize

1. v. t. To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics.

Definition of Dematerialize

1. Verb. (intransitive) to disappear by becoming immaterial ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) to cause something to disappear by becoming immaterial ¹

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Definition of Dematerialize

1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dematerialize

Literary usage of Dematerialize

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

1. Shaker Sermons: Scripto-rational. Containing the Substance of Shaker by Harvey L. Eads (1879)
"To dematerialize is to remove or take away from an object all the matter it contains. When this is done that which is left passes through the solid door. ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1908)
"You gave the medium a horse and cart yesterday, did you not,—that he was to dematerialize?" The sitter acknowledged that he had. ..."

3. The Classic of Spiritism by Lucy McDowell Milburn (1922)
"The most remarkable case on record of the power to dematerialize, is that of the raising of Lazarus from the dead. Prophets, apostles, and saints of the ..."

4. The Classic of Spiritism by Lucy McDowell Milburn (1922)
"The most remarkable case on record of the power to dematerialize, is that of the raising of Lazarus from the dead. Prophets, apostles, and saints of the ..."

5. Why She Became a Spiritualist: Twelve Lectures Delivered Before the by Abby Ann Judson (1891)
"Did the body of the aforesaid George, whom I recognized to be George, dematerialize at my feet, in a way that our physical bodies can not ..."

6. American Spiritual Magazine by Samuel Watson (1877)
"cient to dematerialize matter* if the body did not perish and die from the violation of or in accordance with natural law, the spirit would dematerialize it ..."

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