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

To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.

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.

Consisting of matter. [Obs.] Bacon.

Act of forming matter. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

o pure or abstract, which considers magnitude or quantity abstractly, without relation to matter; and mixed or applied, which treats of magnitude as subsisting in material bodies, and is consequently interwoven with physical considerations.

See Matte. Knight.

The act of interweaving or tangling together so as to make a mat; the process of becoming matted.

urity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter.

The name for the doctrine of the unreality of matter, called, in English, idealism; hence, nothingness; vanity; illusion.

, mechanics, or the laws of motion; pertaining to the quantitative relations of force and matter, as distinguished from mental, vital, chemical, etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical theory; mechanical deposits.

Mechanical operation or action. He acknowledges nothing besides matter and motion; so that all must be performed either by mechanism or accident. Bentley.

ouldst thou meddle to thy hurt 2 Kings xiv. 10. The civil lawyers . . . have meddled in a matter that belongs not to them. Locke. To meddle and make, to intrude one's self into another person's concerns. [Archaic] Shak.

A discharge from the bowels of black matter, consisting of altered blood.

The dark coloring matter of the liquid of the cuttlefish.

The morbid deposition of black matter, often of a malignant character, causing pigmented tumors.

Consisting of or containing matter like honey; -- said of certain encysted tumors.

Containing saccharine matter; marked by saccharine secretions; as, mellitic diabetes.

An ovum, as that of a mammal, only partially composed of germinal matter, that is, consisting of both a germinal portion and an albuminous or nutritive one; -- opposed to holoblast.

Consisting only in part of germinal matter; characterized by partial segmentation only; as, meroblastic ova, in which a portion of the yolk only undergoes fission; meroblastic segmentation; -- opposed to holoblastic.