materiate

English

Alternative forms

• materiated

Etymology

Latin materiatus.

Adjective

materiate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Consisting of matter.
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “materiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Participle

māteriāte

1. vocative masculine singular of māteriātus