Thesaurus: materialize

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1. v. t. To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.
2. v. t. To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
3. v. t. To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to materialize thought.
4. v. t. To make visable in, or as in, a material form; -- said of spirits.
5. v. i. To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape.
6. v. come into being; become reality
7. 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 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. 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 materialize thought. 4. (Spiritualism) To make visable in, or as in, a material form; -- said of spirits. A female spirit form temporarily materialized, and not distinguishable from a human being. Epes Sargent. To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape. [Colloq.]
8. To make visable in, or as in, a material form; -- said ofspirits.A female spirit form temporarily materialized, and notdistinguishable from a human being. Epes Sargent.
9. v:100 v come into being; become reality