Materialize /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Materialized; p. pr. & vb. n. Materializing

1. To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.

   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.

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. To make visable in, or as in, a material form; -- said of spirits. (Spiritualism)

   A female spirit form temporarily materialized, and not distinguishable from a human being.

1. To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape. [Colloq.]
2. To come into existence; as, the promised donations never materialized.