Materializing

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Materialize \Ma*te"ri*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Materialized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Materializing}.] [Cf. F.
     mat['e]rialiser.]
     1. To invest with material characteristics; to make
        perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind
        through the medium of material objects.


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              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.        --Tatler.
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     2. To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or
        principles which are appropriate to matter.
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     3. To cause to assume a character appropriate to material
        things; to occupy with material interests; as, to
        materialize thought.
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     4. (Spiritualism) To make visable in, or as in, a material
        form; -- said of spirits.
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              A female spirit form temporarily materialized, and
              not distinguishable from a human being. --Epes
                                                    Sargent.
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