materiate

English

Alternative forms

  • materiated

Etymology

Latin materiatus.

Adjective

materiate (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Consisting of matter; material.
    Antonym: immateriate
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. [], London: [] William Rawley []; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee [], →OCLC:
      After long enquiry of things immersed in matter, to interpose some subject which is immateriate, or less materiate; such as this of sounds.

Derived terms

References

Latin

Participle

māteriāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of māteriātus