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materialistic, a.|məˌtɪərɪəˈlɪstɪk|
[f. materialist + -ic.]
1. Pertaining to, characterized by, or addicted to materialism, in any of the senses of the term.
1845Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. in Encycl. Metrop. (1854) II. 45 The search for elements by the Ionic School struck Clemens as simply materialistic. 1877Dowden Shaks. Prim. vi. 102 Sly is of the family of Sancho Panza, gross and materialistic in his tastes, and habits. 1877E. Caird Philos. Kant ii. 13 A materialistic explanation of the universe. 1898J. R. Illingworth Div. Immanence i. §3. 21 Minds of a materialistic bias.
2. Pertaining to the ‘material theory’ of heat. rare.
1860Tyndall Glac. ii. xix. 331 According to the materialistic view of heat, bodies are figured as sponges, and heat a kind of fluid absorbed by them.
So materiaˈlistical a. in the same sense (Ogilvie Suppl. 1855). Hence materiaˈlistically adv., in a materialistic manner.
1852Bunsen Hippolytus II. 60 The form of expressing the manifestation of God in the mind, as if God was Himself using human speech to man..was originally never meant to be understood materialistically. 1890J. Pulsford Loyalty to Christ I. 333 A materialistic mind will think materialistically even about the teaching of Christ. 1973C. & R. Milner Black Players v. 115 There's too much paranoia, too much greed... And suspicion, and too much materialistical fear. |