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To comply with the humor of; to adjust matters so as suit the peculiarities, caprices, or exigencies of; to adapt one's self to; to indulge by skillful adaptation; as, to humor the mind. It is my part to invent, and the musician's to humor that invention. Dryden.

That portion of the soil formed by the decomposition of animal or vegetable matter. It is a valuable constituent of soils. Graham.

. Tennyson. To hush up, to procure silence concerning; to suppress; to keep secret. "This matter is hushed up." Pope.

Presiding over matter. [Obs.] Hallywell.

Of or pertaining to matter; material; corporeal; as, hylic influences.

A philosopher who treats chiefly of matter; one who adopts or teaches hylism.

A theory which regards matter as the original principle of evil.

The doctrine that matter is sentient. Krauth-Fleming.

The doctrine of belief that matter is God, or that there is no God except matter and the universe; pantheism. See Materialism.

The doctrine that matter possesses a species of life and sensation, or that matter and life are inseparable. [R.] Cudworth.

A plant, like the fungus, which lives on dead or living organic matter. -- Hys`ter*oph"y*tal, a.

The doctrine taught by Schelling, that matter and mind, and subject and object, are identical in the Absolute; -- called also the system or doctrine of identity.

in the abdomen, which is greatly distended, and in the later stages by vomiting of fecal matter. Called also ileac, or iliac, passion.

To give renown or honor to; to make illustrious; to glorify. [Obs.] Matter to me of glory, whom their hate Illustrates. Milton.

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

In an immaterial manner; without matter or corporeal substance.

and in it immerged a quantity of the leaves of senna. Boyle. Their souls are immerged in matter. Jer. Taylor.

Immersed; buried; hid; sunk. [Obs.] "Things immerse in matter." Bacon.

xcess of praise. Pope. The impatient man will not give himself time to be informed of the matter that lies before him. Addison. Dryden was poor and impatient of poverty. Macaulay.

That property in virtue of which two portions of matter can not at the same time occupy the same portion of space.