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dematerialize, v.|ˌdiːməˈtɪərɪəlaɪz|
[f. de- II. 1 + material a. + -ize.]
a. trans. To deprive of material character or qualities; to render immaterial.
b. intr. To become dematerialized. Hence demaˈterialized ppl. a., -izing ppl. a. and vbl. n., demaˌterialiˈzation.
1884H. Spencer in 19th Cent. Jan. 3 The gradual dematerialisation of the ghost and of the god. 1890Spectator 11 Oct., The seeds of that spiritual development which was to culminate in the completely dematerialised God of Christianity. 1891Cosmopolitan XII. 114/1 He has dematerialized everything into a memory. 1892Scot. Leader 29 Jan. 4 She will gradually dematerialise, and fade away like a vapour before the eyes. 1899Westm. Gaz. 1 Apr. 2/3 ‘The administrators of our manufacturing and commercial firms and the commercial traveller are not necessarily condemned to a barren materialism...’ Perhaps when he has de-materialised the commercial traveller he will try his hand on the Stock Exchange. 1914C. Mackenzie Sinister Street II. iv. iv. 928 These abrupt dematerializations of the underworld were really very difficult to deal with. 1935Burlington Mag. Aug. 53/2 It is a ‘dematerialisation’ which afterwards El Greco realised in another way. 1956R. M. Lester Towards Hereafter ii. 30 The clothes began to take shape, and slowly filled out until the medium was sitting in her chair again, looking just as she had done before the dematerializing. 1960M. Cecil Something in Common ii. 30 She..dematerialized backwards into her office. |