materiation

English

Etymology

Latin materiatio (“woodwork”).

Noun

materiation (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The act of creating matter; materialization
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     a materiation even of matter itself

Related terms

• materiate

References

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