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One who animates. De Quincey.

Consisting of the same material. [Obs.] Bacon.

To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics. Dematerializing matter by stripping if of everything which . . . has distinguished matter. Milman.

The tough, fibrous membrane, which lines the cavity of the skull and spinal column, and surrounds the brain and spinal cord; -- frequently abbreviated to dura.

Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker.

The doctrine that immaterial substances or spiritual being exist, or are possible.

One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.

The state or quality of being immaterial or incorporeal; as, the immateriality of the soul.

To render immaterial or incorporeal. Immateralized spirits. Glanvill.

In an immaterial manner; without matter or corporeal substance.

The state or quality of being immaterial; immateriality.

Immaterial. [Obs.] Bacon.

One of a pair of scent organs which the larvæ of certain butterflies emit from the first body segment, either above or below.

A gelatin in which the algæ spores have been supposed to vegetate.

The delicate and highly vascular membrane immediately investing the brain and spinal cord.

A celebrated Latin hymn, beginning with these words, commemorating the sorrows of the mother of our Lord at the foot of the cross. It is read in the Mass of the Sorrows of the Virgin Mary, and is sung by Catholics when making "the way of the cross" (Via Crucis). See Station, 7 (c).

Being above, or superior to, matter.

Not material; immaterial. [Obs.] Daniel.

A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc.

d eccentric equations. -- Absolute space (Physics), space considered without relation to material limits or objects. -- Absolute terms. (Alg.), such as are known, or which do not contain the unknown quantity. Davies & Peck. -- Absolute temperature (Physics), the temperature as measured on a scale determined by certa…