Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of matter; material.
- In metaphysics, united with matter; embodied in matter: said of an Aristotelian form.
- noun A material substance; a thing formed of matter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Consisting of matter.
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- adjective obsolete Consisting of
matter .
Etymologies
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Latin materiatus.
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Examples
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History, 'wherein he says, "And besides I practice as I do advise; which is, after long inquiry of things immersed in matter, to interpose some subject which is immateriate or less materiate; such as this of sounds: to the end that the intellect may be rectified and become not partial."
A Book About Lawyers John Cordy Jeaffreson 1866
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