materiate
English
Alternative forms
- materiated
Etymology
Latin materiatus.
Adjective
materiate (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Consisting of matter.
- Francis Bacon
- After a long enquiry of things immerse in matter, I interpose some object which is immateriate, or less materiate; such as this of sounds.
- Francis Bacon
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Latin
Participle
materiāte
- vocative masculine singular of materiātus