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materialize

[muh-teer-ee-uh-lahyz]

Origin

verb (used without object)

to come into perceptible existence; appear; become actual or real; be realized or carried out: Our plans never materialized.

to assume material or bodily form; become corporeal: The ghost materialized before Hamlet.

verb (used with object)

to give material form to; realize: to materialize an ambition.

to invest with material attributes: to materialize abstract ideas with metaphors.

to make physically perceptible; cause (a spirit or the like) to appear in bodily form.

to render materialistic.

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opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England.

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Also, especially British, ma·te·ri·al·ise.

Origin:
1700–10; material + -ize

Related forms

ma·te·ri·al·i·za·tion, noun

ma·te·ri·al·iz·er, noun

re·ma·te·ri·al·i·za·tion, noun

re·ma·te·ri·al·ize, verb, re·ma·te·ri·al·ized, re·ma·te·ri·al·iz·ing.

un·ma·te·ri·al·ized, adjective

Synonyms
1. emerge, show, rise, issue.

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materialize or materialise (məˈtɪərɪəˌlaɪz)

—vb
1.	(intr) to become fact; actually happen: our hopes never materialized
2.	to invest or become invested with a physical shape or form
3.	to cause (a spirit, as of a dead person) to appear in material form or (of a spirit) to appear in such form
4.	(intr) to take shape; become tangible: after hours of discussion, the project finally began to materialize
5.	physics to form (material particles) from energy, as in pair production

materialise or materialise

—vb

materiali'zation or materialise

—n

materiali'sation or materialise

—n

ma'terializer or materialise

—n

ma'terialiser or materialise

—n

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Word Origin & History

materialize

appear in bodily form, 1880, in spiritualism, from material + -ize. Related: Materialized.

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"Hebrew culture is based on a single book, the Word of God. Greek culture, by contrast, is based on a thousand books, all of them by human authors. The god of the Hebrews sternly rejected graven idols. Consequently, the Hebrew tradition is iconoclastic—it scorns all attempts to materialize the divine. The Greek gods, conversely, admired the material world. Their admiration, as a matter of fact, often seems to be tinged with envy, as though they considered the material world better than the celestial. They wanted to be materialized. They approved of statues, and the statues they inspired were so beautiful that they eventually set standards for human beauty."

-O.B. Hardison

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