materiate

English

Alternative forms

• materiated

Etymology

Latin materiatus.

Adjective

materiate (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Consisting of matter; [[material}}

   Antonym: immateriate

   • 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.

References

• “materiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Participle

māteriāte

1. vocative masculine singular of māteriātus