MATERIALIZE

happen, materialize, materialise

(verb) come into being; become reality; “Her dream really materialized”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

materialize (third-person singular simple present materializes, present participle materializing, simple past and past participle materialized)

(transitive) To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.

(intransitive) To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.

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

Source: Wiktionary

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Ma*te"ri*al*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Materialized; p. pr. & vb. n. Materializing.] Etym: [Cf. F. matérialiser.]

1. To invest wich material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects. Having wich 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)

Definition: 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.

Ma*te"ri*al*ize, v. i.

Definition: To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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