materiate
English
Alternative forms
- materiated
Etymology
Adjective
materiate (not comparable)
- (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
- “materiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
Participle
māteriāte
- vocative masculine singular of māteriātus