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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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853 words match “MATER”

See Alma mater, Dura mater, and Pia mater.

MATERIA MEDICA n. 2 definitions

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

MATERIAL a. 6 definitions

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

MATERIALISM n. 3 definitions

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

MATERIALIST n. 2 definitions

One who denies the existence of spiritual substances or agents, and maintains that spiritual phenomena, so called, are the result of some peculiar organization of matter.

MATERIALISTIC; MATERIALISTICAL a.

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.

MATERIALITY n. 2 definitions

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

MATERIALIZATION n.

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

MATERIALIZE v. 5 definitions

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…

MATERIALLY adv. 3 definitions

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

MATERIALNESS n.

The state of being material.

See Materialist. [Obs.]

MATERIATE; MATERIATED a.

Consisting of matter. [Obs.] Bacon.

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

That in a complex system which constitutes the materials, or instruments employed, in distinction from the personnel, or men; as, the baggage, munitions, provisions, etc., of an army; or the buildings, libraries, and apparatus of a college, in distinction from its officers.

See Material. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to a mother; becoming to a mother; motherly; as, maternal love; maternal tenderness.

MATERNALLY adv.

In a motherly manner.

The state of being a mother; the character or relation of a mother.

A college or seminary where one is educated.