Ma‐te″ri‐al‐ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Materialized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Materializing (?).] [Cf. F. 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.