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Definition of Materialise
1. Verb. Come into being; become reality. "Her dream really materialized"
Generic synonyms: Come About, Fall Out, Go On, Hap, Happen, Occur, Pass, Pass Off, Take Place
Specialized synonyms: Appear, Come Out
Antonyms: Dematerialise, Dematerialize
Derivative terms: Materialisation, Materialisation, Materialisation, Materialization, Materialization, Materialization
Definition of Materialise
1. Verb. (intransitive British) To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive British) To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear. ¹
3. Verb. (alternative spelling of materialize) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Materialise
1. [v -ISED, -ISING, -ISES]
Medical Definition of Materialise
1. 1. To invest wich material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects. "Having wich wonderful art and beauty materialised, 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 materialise thought. 4. To make visable in, or as in, a material form; said of spirits. "A female spirit form temporarily materialised, and not distinguishable from a human being." (Epes Sargent) Origin: Cf. F. Materialiser. (27 Oct 1998)
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Literary usage of Materialise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Philosophy of History by Augustus Schade, Rudolf Rocholl (1899)
"History would be utterly nugatory if we could not draw on a sum of clear and
beneficial profits; if its value could materialise nothing in the interest of ..."
2. Talks with the Dead: Luminous Rays from the Unseen World, Illustrated with by John Lobb (1907)
"THE DEAD WANT TO materialise ALL mediums are attended by one or more spirits,
who perform on the invisible side the same part as the earthly medium does on ..."
3. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1870)
"If it could be established, or applied as its advocates propose, it would
materialise, and by materialising destroy, all the noblest kinds of poetry—all ..."
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