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.