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The act or process of making matches for kindling or burning.

Same as Checkmate.

the surface being marked by depressed lines which form squares or lozenges in relief; as, matelassé silks.

Having no mate.

A dish of food composed of many kings of fish.

A stew, commonly of fish, flavored with wine, and served with a wine sauce containing onions, mushrooms, etc.

A vain, unprofitable discourse or inquiry. [R.]

Any unprofitable science. [Obs.]

See Alma mater, Dura mater, and Pia mater.

Material or substance used in the composition of remedies; -- a general term for all substances used as curative agents in medicine.

Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies. The material elements of the universe. Whewell.

The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets. The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus. Buckminster.

ains that spiritual phenomena, so called, are the result of some peculiar organization of matter.

Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the nature of materialism. But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics. C. Kingsley.

The quality or state of being material; material existence; corporeity.

The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.

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 sensib…

In the state of matter. I do not mean that anything is separable from a body by fire that was not materially preëxistent in it. Boyle.

The state of being material.

See Materialist. [Obs.]