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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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…

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

The state of being material.

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.

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.

Being above, or superior to, matter.

Not material; immaterial. [Obs.] Daniel.