Materialism Ma·te"ri·al·ism noun [ Confer French matérialisme .]

1. The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets.

The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus.

Buckminster.

2. The tendency to give undue importance to material interests; devotion to the material nature and its wants.

3. Material substances in the aggregate; matter. [ R. & Obsolete] A. Chalmers.

Materialist Ma·te"ri·al·ist (mȧ*tē"rĭ* a l*ĭst) noun [ Confer French matérialiste .] 1. 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.

2. One who holds to the existence of matter, as distinguished from the idealist, who denies it. Berkeley.

Materialistic, Materialistical Ma·te`ri·al·is"tic, Ma·te`ri·al·is"tic·al adjective 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 Ma·te`ri·al"i·ty noun [ Confer French matérialité .]

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

2. Importance; as, the materiality of facts.

Materialization Ma·te`ri·al·i·za"tion noun The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.

Materialize Ma·te"ri·al·ize transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Materialized ; present participle & verbal noun Materializing .] [ Confer French matérialiser .] 1. To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.

Having with 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 sensible images.

Tatler.

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

3. To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to materialize thought.

4. (Spiritualism) To make visable in, or as in, a material form; -- said of spirits.

A female spirit form temporarily materialized , and not distinguishable from a human being.

Epes Sargent.

Materialize Ma·te"ri·al·ize intransitive verb To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape. [ Colloq.]

Materially Ma·te"ri·al·ly adverb 1. 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.

2. In its essence; substantially.

An ill intention is certainly sufficient to spoil . . . an act in itself materially good.

South.

3. In an important manner or degree; essentially; as, it materially concerns us to know the real motives of our actions.

Materialness Ma·te"ri·al·ness noun The state of being material.

Materiarian Ma·te`ri·a"ri·an noun [ Latin materiarius .] See Materialist . [ Obsolete]

Materiate, Materiated Ma·te"ri·ate, Ma·te"ri·a`ted adjective [ Latin materiatus , past participle of materiare to build of wood.] Consisting of matter. [ Obsolete] Bacon.

Materiation Ma·te`ri·a"tion noun [ Latin materiatio woodwork.] Act of forming matter. [ Obsolete] Sir T. Browne.

Matériel Ma`té`ri`el" noun [ French See Material .] 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.

Materious Ma·te"ri·ous adjective See Material . [ Obsolete]

Maternal Ma·ter"nal adjective [ French maternel , Latin maternus , from mater mother. See Mother .] Of or pertaining to a mother; becoming to a mother; motherly; as, maternal love; maternal tenderness.

Syn. -- See Motherly .

Maternally Ma·ter"nal·ly adverb In a motherly manner.

Maternity Ma·ter"ni·ty noun [ French maternité , Late Latin maternitas .] The state of being a mother; the character or relation of a mother.

Matfelon Mat"fel·on noun [ W. madfelen .] (Botany) The knapweed ( Centaurea nigra ).

Math Math noun [ Anglo-Saxon mǣð ; akin to māwan to mow, German mahd math. See Mow to cut (grass).] A mowing, or that which is gathered by mowing; -- chiefly used in composition; as, an after math . [ Obsolete]

The first mowing thereof, for the king's use, is wont to be sooner than the common math .

Bp. Hall.

Mathematic Math`e·mat"ic adjective [ French mathématique , Latin mathematicus , Greek ... disposed to learn, belonging to learning or the sciences, especially to mathematics, from ... that which is learned, learning, plural ... things learned, learning, science, especially mathematical science, from ..., ..., to learn; akin to English mind . See Mind .] See Mathematical .

Mathematical Math`e·mat"ic·al adjective [ See Mathematic .] Of or pertaining to mathematics; according to mathematics; hence, theoretically precise; accurate; as, mathematical geography; mathematical instruments; mathematical exactness. -- Math`e*mat"ic*al*ly , adverb

Mathematician Math`e·ma·ti"cian noun [ Confer French mathématicien .] One versed in mathematics.

Mathematics Math`e·mat"ics noun [ French mathématiques , plural, Latin mathematica , sing., Greek ... (sc. ...) science. See Mathematic , and -ics .] That science, or class of sciences, which treats of the exact relations existing between quantities or magnitudes, and of the methods by which, in accordance with these relations, quantities sought are deducible from other quantities known or supposed; the science of spatial and quantitative relations.

» Mathematics embraces three departments, namely: 1. Arithmetic . 2. Geometry , including Trigonometry and Conic Sections . 3. Analysis , in which letters are used, including Algebra , Analytical Geometry , and Calculus . Each of these divisions is divided into 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.

Mather Math"er noun See Madder .

Mathes Math"es noun [ Perh. corrupted from Latin anthemis camomile, Greek ... .] (Botany) The mayweed. Confer Maghet .

Mathesis Ma·the"sis noun [ Latin , from Greek ..., from ..., ..., to learn.] Learning; especially, mathematics. [ R.] Pope.

Mathurin Math"u·rin noun (R. C. Ch.) See Trinitarian .

Matico Ma·ti"co noun (Botany) A Peruvian plant ( Piper, or Artanthe, elongatum ), allied to the pepper, the leaves of which are used as a styptic and astringent.

Matie Mat"ie noun (Zoology) A fat herring with undeveloped roe. [ Written also matty .] [ Eng. & Scot.]

Mâtin Mâ`tin" noun [ French mâtin .] (Zoology) A French mastiff.

Matin Mat"in noun [ French from Latin matutinum the morning, matutinus of the morning, Matuta the goddess of the morning. See Matutinal .] 1. Morning. [ Obsolete] Shak.

2. plural [ French matines . See Etymol. above.] Morning worship or service; morning prayers or songs.

The winged choristers began
To chirp their matins .

Cleveland.

3. Time of morning service; the first canonical hour in the Roman Catholic Church.

Matin Mat"in adjective Of or pertaining to the morning, or to matins; used in the morning; matutinal.

Matinal Mat"in·al adjective Relating to the morning, or to matins; matutinal.

Matinée Mat`i·née" noun [ French, from matin . See Matin .] A reception, or a musical or dramatic entertainment, held in the daytime. See SoirÉe .

Matrass Ma·trass" noun [ French matras ; perhaps so called from its long narrow neck; confer Old French matras large arrow, Latin materis , mataris , matara , a Celtic javelin, pike; of Celtic origin.] (Chemistry) A round- bottomed glass flask having a long neck; a bolthead.

Matress Mat"ress noun See Matress .

Matriarch Ma"tri·arch noun [ Latin mater mother + -arch .] The mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants; a ruler by maternal right.

Matriarchal Ma`tri·ar"chal adjective Of or pertaining to a matriarch; governed by a matriarch.

Matriarchate Ma"tri·ar"chate noun The office or jurisdiction of a matriarch; a matriarchal form of government.

Matrice Ma"trice noun [ Confer French matrice . See Matrix .] See Matrix .

Matricidal Mat"ri·ci`dal adjective Of or pertaining to matricide.

Matricide Mat"ri·cide noun [ Latin matricidium ; mater mother + coedere to kill, slay: confer French matricide . See Mother , and confer Homicide .] 1. The murder of a mother by her son or daughter.

2. [ Latin matricida : confer French matricide .] One who murders one's own mother.

Matriculate Ma·tric"u·late transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Matriculated ; present participle & verbal noun Matriculating .] [ Latin matricula a public roll or register, dim. of matrix a mother, in respect to propagation, also, a public register. See Matrix .] To enroll; to enter in a register; specifically, to enter or admit to membership in a body or society, particularly in a college or university, by enrolling the name in a register.

In discovering and matriculating the arms of commissaries from North America.

Sir W. Scott.

Matriculate Ma·tric"u·late intransitive verb To go though the process of admission to membership, as by examination and enrollment, in a society or college.

Matriculate Ma·tric"u·late adjective Matriculated. Skelton. -- noun One who is matriculated. Arbuthnot.

Matriculation Ma·tric`u·la"tion noun The act or process of matriculating; the state of being matriculated.

Matrimoine Mat"ri·moine noun Matrimony. [ Obsolete]

Matrimonial Mat`ri·mo"ni·al adjective [ Latin matrimonialis : confer French matrimonial . See Matrimony .] Of or pertaining to marriage; derived from marriage; connubial; nuptial; hymeneal; as, matrimonial rights or duties.

If he relied upon that title, he could be but a king at courtesy, and have rather a matrimonial than a regal power.

Bacon.

Syn. -- Connubial; conjugal; sponsal; spousal; nuptial; hymeneal.

Matrimonially Mat`ri·mo"ni·al·ly adverb In a matrimonial manner.

Matrimonious Mat`ri·mo"ni·ous adjective Matrimonial. [ R.] Milton.

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