3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Materialize  \Ma*te"ri*al*ize\,  v.  i. 
  To  appear  as  a  material  form  to  take  substantial  shape. 
  [Colloq.] 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  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. 
 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  materialize 
  v  :  come  into  being  become  reality;  "Her  dream  really 
  materialized"  [syn:  {happen}]  [ant:  {dematerialize}] 

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