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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.

Impertinence. [R.] O, matter and impertinency mixed! Reason in madness! Shak.

Not pertinent; not pertaining to the matter in hand; having no bearing on the subject; not to the point; irrelevant; inapplicable. Things that are impertinent to us. Tillotson. How impertinent that grief was which served no end! Jer. Taylor.

Subject; matter. [Obs.] Upon importance of so slight and trivial a nature. Shak.

A collection of pus or purulent matter in any part of an animal body; an abscess.

That which is, or which renders anything, impure; foul matter, action, language, etc.; a foreign ingredient. Foul impurities reigned among the monkish clergy. Atterbury.

weeping in the lowly west. Shak. Situated in the forty-first degree of latitude. Gibbon. Matter for censure in every page. Macaulay.

Not active; having no power to move; that does not or can not produce results; inert; as, matter is, of itself, inactive.

The state or quality of being inactive; inertness; as, the inactivity of matter.

Not turning the mind to a matter; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. Cowper. -- In`ad*vert"ent*ly, adv.

Separation or solution of viscid matter by medicines. [Obs.]