materialadj.n.adv.
/məˈtɪərɪəl/, U.S. /məˈtɪriəl/ A. adj.
I. Senses relating to physical substance.† 3. Of physical objects: bulky, massive, solid. Obsolete.
1. † b. Medicine. Of a disease: (perhaps) corporeal, as opposed to spiritual or mental. Obsolete.† c. Denoting the terrestrial sphere. Obsolete.† d. Forming the substance of a thing. Obsolete. rare.
a. Of or relating to matter or substance; formed or consisting of matter. In early use: †earthly (obsolete).
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [adjective]
bodyc1175
materialc1390
corporal?1520
physical1547
substantialc1550
materiate1588
elementated1605
corporeala1620
corpulenta1620
crass1649
materiable1652
corporeous1669
bodysome1674
hylical1708
hylic1853
the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [adjective] > material or not spiritual > merely material
worldlyOE
earthlyOE
fleshlyc1175
materialc1390
carnal1483
charnel1483
earthen1538
world-like1577
earthy1594
materious1611
cloddy1634
wormy1640
unangelicala1711
descendental1847
unangelic1890
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > of large volume or bulky > and solid
greateOE
stour?a1300
fata1325
mightyc1375
sternc1394
stiffc1400
massivec1425
mastiff1495
gross1516
massy1548
robustious1548
mountainousa1616
monumental1632
mountain1633
lusty1640
beamy1697
material1736
Himalayan1878
wodgy1907
monolith1922
c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 182 He that is in helle hath defaute of light material.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 114 Þicnesse & boistousnesse of material parties is cause and welle of heuynesse.
?c1450 (?a1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 376 Whan he [sc. Christ] was souȝte to be a kynge & to haue taake up-on hym þe material swerde.
1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) (1859) v. i. 73 Mundus is the material world, but seculum is taken for the endurynge of the world.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xlix. 4 Fire materiel, or of ill consciens, sall bren.
a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) xix. 66 Þere beth two maner of medycyns, þat is to sey, material, and spiritual.
?1531 J. Frith Disput. Purgatorye To Rdr. sig. a5v I meane not his materyal crosse that he him silfe died on, but a spretuall crosse.
1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Place & Time of Prayer i, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 344 God doth allow the material temple made of lime and stone..to be his house.
1657 R. Austen Spirituall Use of Orchard (new ed.) 166 Wild materiall fruit-trees have no power to engraft themselves... This is another Similitude of the state of Mysticall Fruit-trees..: That Unregenerate persons (of themselves) cannot come to Christ.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1655 (1955) III. 158 He believed the Sunn to be a material fire.
1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. iii. 63 The material World appears to be, in a manner, boundless and immense.
1828 N. Hawthorne Fanshawe vi As soon as the pair discovered that they had sustained no material injury by their contact, they began eagerly to explain.
a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1869) III. v. 365 While heat was supposed to be material it could not be conceived as a force.
1957 I. Asimov Naked Sun iv. 50 What might have been the shower stall, a large one, was shielded off by nothing that seemed material.
1991 C. A. Ronan Nat. Hist. Universe 28/1 The great goal of modern physics is to create a unified theory of the four fundamental interactions that govern the material world.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > organic
material1528
1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. iv If they..eyther incline to materiall sickenes or to vnmateriall.
1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. iv If the sickenes be materiall one maye eate the more at diner.
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iv. sig. Oiv They [sc. cauteres] be necessary..to be gyuen in all dysposycyons of maladyes, and specyall in materyal maladyes.
1612 J. Cotta Short Discouerie Dangers Ignorant Practisers Physicke 20 There are no materiall diseases wherein the common remedies are not requisite.
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1551 R. Record (title) The Castle of Knowledge... Containing the explication of the sphere bothe celestiall and materiall.
1657 tr. A. Thevet Prosopographia 6 in T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (new ed.) The Mathematicians and Astrologers attribute the invention of the Materiall Sphere to this subtill Philosopher [sc. Archimedes].
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > [adjective] > forming material of
material1608
the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > [adjective] > forming the substance of
material1608
materiative1652
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xvi. 35 She that her selfe will sliuer and disbranch From her materiall sap. View more context for this quotation
2.
a. Concerned with worldly things; unspiritual. depreciative (frequently in conjunction with gross).Now passing into sense A. 2c.
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1588 T. Kyd tr. T. Tasso Housholders Philos. f. 17v Not of seruile or materiall witt, but..apt to studie or contemplat.
1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Cymon & Iphigenia in Fables 546 His gross material Soul at once could find Somewhat in her excelling all her Kind.
1850 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1863) 4th Ser. vii. 101 The Romish doctrine contains a truth which it is of importance to disengage from the gross and material form with which it has been overlaid.
1853 C. Brontë Villette III. xxxviii. 200 What I saw struck me..as grossly material, not poetically spiritual.
1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost ix. 257 The gross heavy material love of the world.
b. Concerned with matter or the physical world; involving the presence, use, or action of matter. Now rare.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [adjective] > concerned with or involving matter
materiate1626
material1649
mechanical1658
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar i. v. 149 These temptations are crasse and material, and soon discernable; it will require some greater observation to arm against such as are more spiritual and immaterial.
1821 New Monthly Mag. 1 16 When Science from Creation's face Enchantment's veil withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws.
1867 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings (1870) Pref. 14 Agriculture, though the most material of all our pursuits, is teaching us truths beyond its own direct province.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ix. §1. 590 The attempt to secure spiritual results by material force.
1877 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence (ed. 2) iv. 94 The painter's art is at once ethereal and material.
1882 T. H. Green in Mind No. 25. 19 The material atomism of popular science.
c. Relating to the physical as opposed to the intellectual or spiritual aspect of things; concerned with physical needs, bodily comfort, etc.; materialistic.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [adjective] > material or not spiritual
fleshlyc1175
bodilya1340
temporalc1380
worldyc1380
claylya1400
elementaryc1440
mondiala1500
gross1509
fleshly-wise1542
elemental1574
outward1574
natural1581
terrestrene1599
elementated1605
sublunary1609
temporarya1616
subluminary1625
sublunar1625
outwardlya1642
material1843
intramundane1845
unethereal1861
naturistic1886
1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. i. iii. 57 The Mexican heaven may remind one of Dante's in its material enjoyments; which, in both, are made up of light, music, and motion.
1858 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 379 Better material accommodation you could have nowhere.
1873–4 W. H. Dixon Hist. Two Queens IV. xix. iv. 25 When the fury ceased, the city was a moral and material wreck.
1879 M. Arnold Equality in Mixed Ess. 70 France..is the country where material well-being is most widely spread.
1919 E. Wharton French Ways v. iv. 93 They want only enough leisure and freedom from material anxiety to enjoy what life and the arts of life offer.
1965 I. Murdoch Red & Green vii. 109 The irrevocable and tedious nature of the marriage bond which linked him to a material, cheated him of a spiritual, destiny.
1991 European Sociol. Rev. 7 273/1 For testing the hypotheses on the material life-style, household income is not just a control variable, but a key variable.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > of large volume or bulky
burlyc1400
bulkedc1420
massyc1540
bowerly1542
lumpish1545
big-bodied1561
massy?1571
spacious1595
voluminousa1635
grossy1648
bulkishc1660
bulky1687
bulksomea1693
material1715
bouksome1785
dinosaurian1916
dinosauric1922
1715 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture I. xii. 17 The Tuscan is so rude and material, that it is seldom used above ground.
1735 in Pope's Lett. I. Suppl. 30 This was only in ordine ad, to another more material Volume.
II. Opposed to formal.
4.
a. Philosophy. Of, designating, or relating to the matter or material aspect of something, as opposed to the form or formal aspect. Formerly also in Mathematics: †designating number or a number as applied to a specific set of objects rather than treated abstractly or formally in itself (cf. concrete adj. 4a) (obsolete). Cf. formal adj. 1a.material cause: see cause n. 5.
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c1390 G. Chaucer Melibeus B. 2589 The cause material been the fyve woundes of thy doghter. The cause formal is the manere of hir werkinge.
1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) 11 The fyrst is clepyd cause efficyent, The secunde they clepe cause materyal.
c1450 Art Nombryng in R. Steele Earliest Arithm. in Eng. (1922) 33 Sothely .2. manere of nombres ben notifiede; Formalle, as nombre is vnitees gadrede to-gedres; Materialle, as nombre is a colleccioune of vnitees.
1550 R. Sherry Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. Fii And fyrste of euerye thinge there be foure causes, efficient, materiall, formall and finall.
1588 T. Kyd tr. T. Tasso Housholders Philos. f. 25 Formall number, may infinitly encrease, but the Materiall cannot multiply so much.
1660 Bp. J. Taylor Worthy Communicant i. §3. 52 Not the sound, or the letters and syllables, that is, not the material part, but the formal.
1669 W. Holder Elem. Speech 22 Of Letters the Material part is Breath and Voice; the Formal is constituted by the Motions and Figure of the Organs of Speech affecting Breath with a peculiar sound, by which each Letter is discriminated.
1697 tr. F. Burgersdijck Monitio Logica i. xvi. 56 Form is..divided..into Material and Immaterial. Material Form is that which is produced out of the Power of Matter, or which dependeth upon Matter in that self same Moment and Act, by which it is made.
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 147 There are seven Causes consider'd in Judgment, viz. the Material, Efficient, and Formal Cause; and likewise a Natural, Substantial, and Accidental Cause; and lastly a Final Cause.
1827 R. Whately Elem. Logic ii. v. §3 Whatever Term can be affirmed of several things, must express either their whole essence..or a part of their essence, (viz. either the material part, which is called the Genus, or the formal and distinguishing part, which is called Differentia).
1958 W. Willetts Chinese Art II. vii. 586 Corresponding to this formal cause of each existence was its material cause.
1997 D. Park Fire within Eye iv. 110 Aristotle's four causes: the object in which a species originates is its formal cause, the medium through which it propagates is its material cause, and the process of multiplication is the efficient cause.
b. Chiefly Theology. Designating an action, disposition, etc., as being of a specified kind from the point of view of external or observable behaviour, without regard to the intention or other factors which more fully determine its true nature. Now chiefly in material sin n. at Compounds 1.
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1656 J. Bramhall Replic. to Bishop of Chalcedon ix. 341 They who separate actually without just cause, may doe it out of invincible ignorance, and consequently they are not formall, but only materiall Schismaticks.
1690 J. Norris Christian Blessedness 95 The desiring material Righteousness by a direct Act of the Will actually makes a Man formally Righteous.
1713 Bp. G. Smalridge Serm. (1724) 331 The heathen and the Christian may agree in the material acts of charity; but that which formally makes this a Christian grace, is the spring from which it flows.
1743 J. Ellis Knowl. Divine Things iv. 289 Whether..the entitative material Act of Sin be physically or morally good?
1884 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. 400/2 Such Protestants as are in good faith and sincerely desirous of knowing the truth are not heretics in the formal sense... Their heresy is material only.
1907 Amer. Hist. Rev. 12 360 Heresy..included not only all conscious variance from the prescribed religion, but all accidental and unconscious as well. This was ‘material’ heresy, voluntary and pertinacious error being ‘formal’ heresy.
5. Logic. Concerned with the matter, not the form, of reasoning; (occasionally) contingently valid. Cf. formal adj. 1d.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > [adjective] > relating to systems or characteristics of
habitual1526
material1628
systematic1666
regulative1798
methodological1849
formala1856
grammatical1874
multivalued1934
fuzzy1964
1628 T. Spencer Art of Logick 232 A materiall Illation is when the consequent goes with the Antecedent: yet so as it followes the same, not by force thereof.
1685 tr. A. Arnauld & P. Nicole Logic iii. xiii. 65 The truth of a Consequence..is only propounded conditionally, and separated from the material Truth, as I may so say, of what it contains.
1697 tr. F. Burgersdijck Monitio Logica i. xxviii. 113 The Material Modes affect the Matter of the Enunciation, viz. either Subject or Predicate.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Object Material Object..is the thing itself that is consider'd, or treated of... Formal Object, is the manner of considering it.
1850 R. Whately Elem. Logic (ed. 9) iii. §3 The remaining class (viz. where the Conclusion does follow from the Premises) may be called the Material, or Non-logical Fallacies.
1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic vi. 149 The material truth of the Conclusion depends upon the material truth of the Premises.
1883 F. H. Bradley Princ. Logic 471 If ‘material’ is a name for what transcends mere ‘concepts’ and commits itself to truth, then of course all logic must be material.
1937 A. Smeaton tr. R. Carnap Logical Syntax Lang. iv. 237 We will..assign to the material mode of speech any sentence which is to be interpreted as attributing to an object a particular property.
1946 Mind 55 321 If we follow the material logicians in holding that universal propositions are existential as to individuals also [etc.].
1975 Jrnl. Philos. 72 93 Since the logic of ideas is a material logic, it can be characterized only with reference to, and is unintelligible independently of the subject matter..to which it is in a particular case addressed.
III. Having significance or relevance.† 7. Full of sense, meaning, or pertinent information. Obsolete.
6.
a. Of serious or substantial import; significant, important, of consequence.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > of high or great importance
worthlyeOE
mickleeOE
greatc1225
right hand?c1225
solemna1387
materialc1475
superior1526
grand1542
weighty1558
main1581
pregnant1591
pregnate1598
materious1611
moliminous1642
momentous1656
magic1696
all-important1748
big1748
eventful1756
colossal1775
bread and butter1822
bada1825
key1832
all-absorbing1834
earth-moving?1834
earth-shaking1835
earth-shatteringa1859
high-ranking1874
beaucoup1917
major league1951
earth-stopping1956
crucial1957
c1475 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1900) 104 308 (MED) The tyme approched of necessite To reherse the marterial sentence, Which afore althynges iust equite..To drede god by mannes providence.
?a1525 (?a1475) Play Sacrament l. 890 in N. Davis Non-Cycle Plays & Fragm. (1970) 85 As ye be materyall to owr degre, We put vs in yowr moderat ordynaunce, Yff yt lyke yowr hyghnes to here owr greuaunce.
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 125/1 Sith this thing is much material, as wherupon many great thynges do depende.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. i. 137 Whose absence is no lesse materiall to me, Then is his Fathers. View more context for this quotation
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 130 He would put that which was most Materiall, in the Post-script.
1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense 23 in Scepsis Scientifica 'Tis a pertinent and material enquiry to ask, whence the Soul is?
1667 A. Marvell Let. 26 Jan. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 54 The Poll bill is printed, but with so materiall errors that we must make an explanatory Act.
1709 J. Swift Project Advancem. Relig. 58 That is no material Objection against the Design it self.
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 347 I have nothing material to say.
1769 E. Burke Let. to Marq. Rockingham in Corr. (1844) I. 211 His consequence in the India House is much more material to him than his rank in parliament.
1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. v. 297 In one point more material,..the commons successfully vindicated their privilege.
1896 Cent. Mag. Nov. 22 [He] seldom interlined a word or made a material correction.
1957 Encycl. Brit. I. 842/1 They made no material change in its composition.
1990 R. Izhar Accounting, Costing, & Managem. i. ii. 31 The accountant should concern himself only with items material in relation to the size of the business.
b. Used predicatively, with infinitive or clause as subject. Now literary and formal.
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1547 J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes b viij Whether he came out of Italy or not, is not muche materiall.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. x. sig. Y6v That were too long their infinite contents Here to record, ne much materiall.
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 102 It is not much materiall which gate we goe out at.
1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick i. vii. 50 'Tis not materiall to the force of this instrument, whether the rundles of it be big or little.
a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1690) iv. 76 It is also material to examin, how many of them do get more than they spend, and how many less. In order whereunto it is to be considered, that [etc.].
1712 M. Henry Daily Commun. God in Wks. (1853) I. 205/2 It is essential to a letter that it be directed, and material that it be directed right.
1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 256 It is very material to distinguish them with accuracy.
1890 Ld. Halsbury in Law Times Rep. 64 3/2 Before dealing with the particular clauses..it is material to notice the problem which the Legislature had to solve.
c. Chiefly Law. Of evidence or a fact: significant or influential, esp. in having affected a person's decision-making; (U.S. Law) having a logical connection with the facts at issue. Formerly also with infinitive. Cf. material witness n. at Compounds 1.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > most important > other
material1581
capital1597
supreme1791
staminal1845
red meat1968
1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha i. xxi. 205 To take..the Information..(or so much thereof as shall be materiall to proue the Felonie).
1603 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Hist. Descr. Worlde 80 What they did one against another in the time of Charles the fift, is not much materiall to proue their courage.
1848 J. Arnould Law Marine Insurance I. ii.i i. 492 Facts, the statement of which may reasonably be presumed likely to have such an influence on the judgment of the underwriter are called 'material facts'; a statement of such facts is called a material representation.
1881 Ld. Coleridge in Times 5 July 4/2 The alteration which vitiates a contract must be material—that is, one which alters the character of the instrument itself.
1946 Criminal Appeal Rep. 31 146 Where the prosecution have taken a statement from a person who can give material evidence but decide not to call him as a witness, they are under a duty to make that person available as a witness for the defence.
1990 Which? Oct. 580/2 If you don't tell your insurance company any fact relevant to the risk they are insuring you against—called a ‘material fact’—your policy can be declared invalid.
1995 B. A. Garner Dict. Mod. Legal Usage (ed. 2) 550/2 Material,..relevant, the distinction between these terms..is counterintuitive and therefore sometimes confusing. Relevant = tending to prove or disprove a matter in issue. Material = having some logical connection with the consequential facts.
d. Pertinent, relevant; essential. With to, †for.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > essential or central
cardinal1440
material1603
primal1619
real1620
centrical1659
vital1659
essential1770
nucleal1826
key1832
pivotal1837
keystone1846
pivot1861
quintessential1901
central1902
core1962
the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > [adjective] > essential to
material1697
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 232 Those [things] that be most materiall and necessarie for mans felicitie.
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 121 Nor was it a little material, to their advantage, if [etc.].
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 75 I pass the rest, whose ev'ry Race and Name, And Kinds, are less material to my Theme. View more context for this quotation
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xiii. iv. 30 It may be material to our History to mention an Observation of Lady Bellaston, who took her Leave in a few Minutes after him. View more context for this quotation
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xiv. 254 Certain passages material to his understanding the rest of this important narrative.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Specimens of Table Talk (1835) I. 55 A slight contrast of character is very material to happiness in marriage.
1876 W. E. Gladstone Homeric Synchronism 145 The point material to the present inquiry is that [etc.].
1987 Ecologist Mar.–June 103/2 The Minister accepted this advice..and concluded ‘that the Chernobyl accident is not material to my decision’.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > drift, tenor, purport > [adjective]
intential?c1470
significant1600
material1602
1602 B. Jonson Poetaster v. i. sig. K2v What thinks, Materiall Horace, of his learning? View more context for this quotation
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxiv. 338 His speech euen charm'd his eares: So orderd; so materiall.
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 73 Beware of being too materiall, when there is any impediment, or obstruction in mens will.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. iii. 28 A materiall foole. View more context for this quotation
1665 J. Livingston Mem. Char. in W. K. Tweedie Select Biogr. (1845) I. 335 Mr. James Simson, a very able and materiall preacher.
1685 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) II. 224 Her discourse, which was always material, not trifling.
B. n.
1. † b. In plural. The constituent, intrinsic, or essential parts of something. Obsolete.
a. Matter (not precisely characterized); that which constitutes the substance of a thing (physical or non-physical); a physical substance; a material thing. Frequently with distinguishing adjective. Cf. matter n.1 19a.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] > thing or material object > collectively
material1587
corporeals1647
corporal1659
matter1690
materiality1811
tangibility1849
?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. v. pr. iv. 210 For it knoweth the universite of resoun, and the figure of ymaginacioun, and the sensible material [L. materiale sensibile] conceyved by wit.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xiv. 239 What doth..matter [bring forth] but matter; and materiall but materialles?
1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. iv. 14 Simples may be distinguished..into those things which are simply formals, and into those which are simply materials.
1622 E. Chaloner Sixe Serm. 348 And so I come from the formale of the Title, the inscription, to the materiale or substance of it.
1794 J. Hutton Diss. Philos. Light 247 The inflammable materials in closs vessels.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 601 A dry furfuraceous or scaly skin, often oozing a calcareous material.
1850 De Bow's Rev. Aug. 244/1 Dr Nott, of Mobile, published a pamphlet denying the unity doctrine, which fell like a fire-brand in the midst of inflammable material.
1864 J. F. Kirk Hist. Charles the Bold (U.S. ed.) I. i. 11 The material of the character was coarser and more robust.
1938 R. Hum Chem. for Engin. Students xxvi. 736 The resinous material first formed dissolves in acetone and other solvents.
1952 J. A. Steers et al. Lake's Physical Geogr. (ed. 3) iii. viii. 323 In the lower part the river spreads out the material that it carries.
1997 Indianapolis Star 5 June f8 (advt.) Free Mr. Yuk stickers, used to alert children of poisonous materials in the home.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > [noun] > essential elements
substantialsa1398
internala1594
formal1605
fundamental1617
materialsa1631
essentials1663
hardtack1888
basic1934
funda1989
a1631 J. Donne Lady Carey 15 in Poems (1633) 112 They are your materials, not your ornament.
1642 D. Rogers Naaman To Rdr. sig. B4v As they say of the materialls of the world, they would soone dissolve if [etc.].
1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 59 If the very materials of the Church were a Ceremony, then the Church it self should be but a Ceremony.
1662 Bk. Common Prayer Pref. The Main Body and Essentials of it (as well in the chiefest materials, as in the frame and order thereof) have continued the same unto this day.
c. Text or images in printed or electronic form; also with distinguishing word, as reading material, etc. Also: the songs, jokes, or other items which make up a performer's act.
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1885 Overland Monthly Apr. 494/1 I visited the library and reading room—comfortable, well-furnished apartments, with plenty of good reading material.
1932 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 37 948 There has been a marked increase in sale of pornographic material during the year.
1977 J. Monaco How to read Film vi. 365 A newspaper publisher can afford to carry unpopular material.
1993 R. Walser Running with Devil 61 Performers who haven't composed their own material..have rarely won critical respect.
d. With distinguishing word, as headmaster, star material, etc. A person (or people) with the qualities and skills needed for a particular role or activity.An extended use of sense B. 1, with mixture of sense B. 3.
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1892 College Index (Auburn, Alabama) Nov. I. i. 23 He still kept a sharp lookout for football material.
1927 Officers Training Corps Gaz. Apr. 59/1 The sorely needed officer material caused by the early casualties.
1964 ‘E. Peters’ Flight of Witch i. 9 Tom Kenyon, confident, clever and ambitious, was obvious headmaster material.
1969 M. Pugh Last Place Left xxvii. 194 It was difficult recruiting men... ‘Some of them, well, they're not leadership material.’
1971 D. Eden Afternoon Walk viii. 109 Aren't all top executives ulcer material?
1985 M. Gallant Home Truths 179 He told my father I wasn't college material.
2.
a. The matter or substance from which a thing is or may be made. (See also raw material n. at raw adj. and n.1 Compounds 2.)
(a) In plural.
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society > occupation and work > materials > [noun]
stuffc1440
materialc1475
material1509
graith1513
subject matter1535
metalc1550
staple1598
tew1616
subjected matter1645
materiable1652
matter1680
ingredient1691
vehicle1837
input1893
c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 68 (MED) In siche placis where þat þese materials moun not be founden þat longiþ to þes emplastris aforseid, þanne þu schalt leye þerto þis oynement.
1511–12 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 354 For siklik powderis, confectionis, spiceri, ypothecary and materialez.
a1525 G. Myll Spectakle of Luf in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I. 278 The materialls quhar of thir drinkis are mad.
1556 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 294 To by stanis, lyme, and all materiallis neidfull thairto.
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist i. i. sig. Bv Your Stilles, your Glasses, your Materialls . View more context for this quotation
1622 T. Dekker & P. Massinger Virgin Martir iii. sig. F4 [He] Tooke from the Matrons necks the richest Iewels And purest gold, as the materialls To finish vp his worke [sc. an image].
1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. vi. i. sig. Mm6v This Child..despising meer Bread,..his Mother is fain to disguise the Materials of it into Cake.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 173 Gun-powder..with other Materials for kindling Fire.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iii. iv. 58 A Palace may be built in a Week, of Materials so durable as to last for ever.
1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times i. 25 Considering how perishable are the materials out of which clothes are necessarily formed.
1954 F. L. Wright Natural House i. 116 To use our new materials—concrete, steel and glass, and the old ones—stone and wood—in ways that were not only expedient but beautiful.
1988 S. Afr. Panorama Apr. 30/2 He has won acclaim for his graphics, and murals fashioned from a wide variety of materials.
(b) In singular. (In quot. ?a1425 at sense B. 1a = matter n.1 22a.)
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society > occupation and work > materials > [noun]
stuffc1440
materialc1475
material1509
graith1513
subject matter1535
metalc1550
staple1598
tew1616
subjected matter1645
materiable1652
matter1680
ingredient1691
vehicle1837
input1893
1509–10 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 125 [That] Maister Stephane, ypothegar..may..vse the samin with his materiall and spisery.
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 47 Art can doe nothing without the materiall; whereas the materiall without Art hath her own worthinesse.
1662 B. Gerbier Brief Disc. Princ. Building 25 When Builders see their Copings [etc.]..to decay they must have patience, since there is no Material but is subject thereunto.
1753 J. Warton tr. Virgil Eclogues iv, in J. Warton et al. tr. Virgil Wks. I. 92 Sandyx is spoken of by Pliny, as a cheap material for painting.
1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 389 The large refineries of Gold and Silver by the means of Lead furnish a great quantity of this material.
1828 T. Carlyle Burns in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 279 It is not the material but the workman that is wanting.
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. v. 207 Flax..constitutes the material of linen cloth.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 351 The ordinary material was brick.
1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 100 £1,186 12s. 4¾d. for material, and £797 16s. 11d. for labour.
1929 W. F. Foshag in G. P. Merrill Minerals from Earth & Sky ii. iv. 256 The natives used this material, a true nephrite, for knife blades and the like.
1998 Melody Maker 28 Feb. 48/1 A man-made material..created specifically for electric instruments.
b. In plural. In Ireland: the ingredients for making whisky punch. N.E.D. (1905) notes ‘now “almost always shortened to matts, even in a bill” (H. C. Hart)’.
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1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xxxviii. 304 She..set about getting ‘the materials’ for making punch.
1888 H. Smart Master of Rathkelly II. 53 Take my advice, leave the ‘matarials’ alone to-night and stick to the claret.
3. In plural. The tools, equipment, or other items needed for a particular activity. Frequently with distinguishing word, as cleaning, writing materials, etc.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > equipment for any action or undertaking
ornament?c1225
i-wendea1250
atil1297
tacklea1325
apparel1330
conreyc1330
farec1330
tirec1330
apparementc1340
apparelmentc1374
graithc1375
appurtenancec1386
geara1400
warnementa1400
stuff1406
parelling?a1440
farrements1440
stuffurec1440
skippeson1444
harnessa1450
parela1450
implements1454
reparel1466
ordinance1475
habiliments1483
ornation1483
muniments1485
outred1489
trinketc1525
garnishing1530
garniture1532
accoutrementsc1550
furniments1553
tackling1558
instrument1563
ordinara1578
appointment?1578
outreiking1584
supellectile1584
appoint1592
dighting1598
outreik1598
materialsa1600
apparate?c1600
attirail1611
coutrement1621
apparatusa1628
outrig1639
equipage1648
thing1662
equipment1717
paraphernalia1736
fixture1767
tack1777
outfit1787
fittinga1817
fixing1820
matériel1821
set-out1831
rigging1837
parapherna1876
clobber1890
a1600 Edinb. Town Treasurer's Accts. in A. J. Mill Mediaeval Plays in Scotl. (1927) 206 Follows the materiallis pertening to the ton [of Edinburgh].
1643 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1816) VI. i. 16/1 Sufficient store of pulder, spades, showles, pick axes, handrules and other materiallis.
1688 in Bannatyne Misc. (1836) II. 293 The heall bookis, paper, and uther materiellis in his choap.
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 324 Materials, all tools and tackle, timber and implements, that belong to a Mine.
1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. ii. iii. 433 De Seso called for writing materials.
1934 Discovery Nov. 323/2 From the artists' materials discovered at Pompeii Professor Pozzi was able to obtain a test-tube full of the mysterious colour purpurissum.
1975 J. Wood North Kill x. 139 The speaker kicked his bike into life... The others were storing their cleaning materials into side pannier bags.
1984 G. Jennings Journeyer 96 We passed a shop where an Arab khaja offered writing materials for sale.
4. Facts, information, evidence, etc., on which a conclusion is based, or from which an idea is developed, esp. in creating a work of literature or art. Originally in plural.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] > material
matter1340
substancec1350
subject matter1535
making1623
material1624
substratuma1676
materiality1811
hypostase1867
materiature1881
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > [noun] > structural material
stuff1587
subject1590
material1624
fabric1849
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > [noun] > usableness > availability > that which is
material1624
availability1867
1624 J. Ussher in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) 131 To you I must be more beholding for furnishing me with materialls.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 80 Concerning the Materialls of Seditions... The surest way to prevent Seditions..is to take away the Matter of them.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. ii. 45 These simple Ideas, the Materials of all our Knowledge.
1713 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1898) IV. 205 I have read part of the B. of St. Asaph's Life of St. Winifrid, for wch I helped him to several Materials out of Bodley.
1783 W. Cowper Let. 7 Mar. (1981) II. 112 Were my Letters composed of materials worthy of your acceptance, they should be longer.
1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. Pref. 3 Research and Criticism, only furnish the materials of Meditation.
1877 S. J. Owen in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches Introd. p. xlv Wellesley..was anxious to secure fresh and malleable ‘material’, rather than overformed or misformed agents.
1920 H. J. Laski Polit. Thought in Eng. iii. 118 But the Alliance between Church and State (1736) set the temper of speculation until the advent of Newman, and is therefore material for something more than contempt.
1994 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 27 Nov. 23/1 The author..dug up much fresh material on the early days of basketball.
5. The matériel of an army. Cf. matériel n. 2. rare.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > [noun] > provision or procurement of supplies > supplies
stuffc1440
supply1510
supply1512
bastiment1594
material1815
matériel1819
subsistence stores1819
1815 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 13 521 Their [sc. the French army's] baggage, equipage, tumbrils, artillery, the whole of what is called the material, were taken.
1986 N.Y. Times 6 Mar. a1/1 We send money and material now so we'll never have to send our own American boys.
6. Cloth, woven fabric.Sometimes (Dressmaking): cloth or woollen fabric as opposed to silks, etc.; see also material dress n. at Compounds 1.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > [noun]
workeOE
draperya1300
cloth1377
toilec1440
ware1442
stuff1604
drape1665
fabric1753
kain1783
good1831
material1848
1848 Southern Literary Messenger 14 559/1 The best material for the cravat is satin or silk of a uniform color.
1860 C. Dickens in All Year Round 25 Feb. 417/2 A cool material with a light glazed surface, being the covering of the seats.
1875 L. S. Floyer Plain Needlework 10 The material used in the South to strain milk, called ‘Cheese Cloth’ in the trade.
1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience iii. 61 I instantly recognized the gray-blue material of trousers he often wore.
1963 S. Plath Bell Jar i. 5 Her college was so fashion-conscious..that all the girls had pocket-book covers made out of the same material as their dresses.
1988 M. Moorcock Mother London i. 16 She wears a dress of William Morris material.
7. With the: that which is material.
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1850 O. Winslow Inner Life i. 6 The perishing of the material is not the annihilation of the immaterial.
1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. vii. 263 The analysis of the material is not the same as the analysis of the mental.
1985 G. Naylor Linden Hills 169 There are so many forces that govern our lives beyond the material, the tangible.
In an important degree. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adverb]
weightily1552
importantly1600
material1653
materially1654
eventfully1795
significantly1871
1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian Pref. sig. A2 Procopius..was a very material concerned Agent in all these Wars.
Compounds
C1. Compounds of the adjective.
material aid n. aid in the form of money or practical goods, as opposed to effort, etc.; spec. food or other non-financial aid given to a developing nation, or to victims of war or natural disaster.
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1853 G. Flagg Let. 30 Jan. in Flagg Corr. (1986) 194 Nothing from you this week either in the way of letters or ‘material aid’ both of which are very desirable.
1908 J. Davidson Mammon & his Message iv. iv. 106 The scorn of money and material aid Is still the ruin of immortal ends.
1991 Marxism Today Mar. 49 No one has asked me to contribute material aid for Iraqi civilians who have lost everything in the allied bombing.
material culture n. Cultural Anthropology and Archaeology the physical objects, such as tools, domestic articles, or religious objects, which give evidence of the type of culture developed by a society or group.
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1907 Amer. Anthropologist 9 288 Material culture has been well treated by C. C. Jones.
1931 Encycl. Social Sci. IV. 622/1 Material equipment of culture is not, however, a force in itself... Material culture requires a complement less simple, less easily catalogued or analyzed, consisting of the body of intellectual knowledge.
1995 Inuit Art Q. Spring 40/1 The Royal Ontario Museum..has assembeled a collection of kayaks and material culture that show a people connected with the land.
material dress n. now rare a dress made of woollen cloth.
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1884 Daily News 27 Oct. 2/1 The increasing popularity of silks as opposed to what are known as ‘material’ dresses.
material equivalence n. Logic the truth-functional relationship which obtains between any two propositions having the same truth value (either both true or both false); a case in which such a relationship exists.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical truth > [noun] > other terms relating to
material equivalence1892
truth set1940
necessity operator1953
1892 Mind 1 26 (note) The relations between formal equivalence, implication, or contradiction, and material equivalence, implication, or contradiction, will be treated in my next paper.
1932 C. I. Lewis & C. H. Langford Symbolic Logic iv. 88 Since the relation p≡q is a reciprocal implication, it shares the peculiarities of material implication and is called ‘material equivalence’.
1962 Jrnl. Philos. 59 100 Material equivalence is a very weak criterion for an analysis.
1993 Philos. Perspectives 7 84 The extensionally valid inference pattern that fails here..is the one that sanctions inference from the material equivalence of x's being human and x's being a featherless biped to the identity of being human and being a featherless biped.
material girl n. [ < the lyrics of a song originally performed by Madonna (born Madonna Louise Ciccone, 1958), U.S. singer and actress] a worldly or materialistic woman or girl.
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1984 P. Brown & R. Rans Living in Material World (song) You know that we are living in a material world And I am a material girl.
1995 Guardian 26 Jan. ii. 8/4 (heading) Tired of sugary fairy-tale heroines? Lindsay Kemp's Cinderella is a material girl wed to an inbred pervert.
material implication n. Logic the truth-functional relationship which obtains between the antecedent and the consequent of a conditional proposition except when the antecedent is true and the consequent false.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > predicate or propositional logic > [noun] > implication
logical implication1887
prehensiveness1897
formal implication1903
material implication1903
implication1906
strict implication1912
entailment1933
1903 B. Russell Princ. Math. ii. 14 How far formal implication is definable in terms of implication simply, or material implication as it may be called, is a difficult question.
1932 C. I. Lewis & C. H. Langford Symbolic Logic 101 The relation of formal implication is transitive, like material implication.
1992 Mind 101 76 We are to think of the dyadic construction they feature as really monadic after all, with Intend (α/β) being an alternative notation for (3) Intend (β → Sα) in which the arrow symbolizes (let's say) material implication, and the ‘S’ is a subjunctivizing operator.
material noun n. Grammar a mass noun which denotes a physical substance.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > noun > [noun] > uncountable or mass noun
material noun1892
mass-word1914
uncountable1924
mass noun1933
singulare tantum1940
quantifiable1957
1892 H. Sweet New Eng. Gram. I. 54 Common nouns..are subdivided into class-nouns, such as man, and material-nouns, such as iron.
1925 J. H. Grattan & P. Gurrey Our Living Lang. xviii. 110 A material-noun is a word which stands for the whole mass of matter possessing the qualities implied by the word, or for an indefinite quantity of that matter—for example, water, iron, veal, butter.
1969 R. Kingdon Palmer's Gram. Spoken Eng. (ed. 3) ii. 61 Common nouns..are subdivided into Material nouns and Class nouns. Material nouns..name substances.
material object n. a thing made or consisting of matter, a physical object; (Philosophy) an object having a real physical existence independent of mind or consciousness.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] > thing or material object
thingOE
bodya1398
objecta1398
substance1525
cheat1567
solidity1604
article1618
material objecta1651
res extensa1652
extensum1678
businessa1684
animal1729
materiate1755
affair1763
thingy1787
fellow1816
concern1824
jockey1827
toy1895
yoke1910
doojigger1927
bitch1951
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > metaphysics > ontology > [noun] > being or entity > that exists in time and space and can be perceived
material objecta1651
physical object1752
continuant1917
a1651 N. Culverwell Worth of Souls in Elegant Disc. Light of Nature (1652) 201 For the soul of it self is more large and spacious, and scornes to be bounded by material objects.
1713 G. Berkeley Three Dialogues Hylas & Philonous i. 61 I wou'd, therefore, fain know, what Arguments you can draw from Reason, for the Existence of what you call real Things, or material Objects.
1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters II. 97 Any work of art which represents, not a material object, but the mental conception of a material object, is, in the primary sense of the word, ideal.
1912 B. Russell Probl. Philos. iv. 58 Common sense regards tables and chairs..and material objects generally as something radically different from minds.
1995 J. Shreeve Neandertal Enigma (1996) xi. 302 Messages borne by clothing and material objects are not limited to simple statements of affiliation.
material objectness n. the state or quality of existing as a material object.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > materialism > [noun] > objectivism > elements of
material thing1583
material objectness1932
1932 H. H. Price Perception ii. 52 ‘Material-objectness’ cannot be defined without mention of it.
1941 Mind 50 282 The puzzle is this: if sense-data are all that we are directly aware of in perception, how have we ever acquired the concept of ‘material-objectness’ at all?
material sin n. Theology a wrong action without regard to the evil intention that is necessary to constitute it a sin in the full sense of the word: see sense A. 4b.
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1837 L. Beecher Views in Theol. 231 We have often been much perplexed in the attempt to understand what is meant by certain men, when they declaim against physical depravity, material sin, [etc.].
1906 Amer. Hist. Rev. 11 257 When he said that God sometimes wished sin, he meant material sin.
1952 R. A. Knox Hidden Stream xviii. 165 If you wake up in the night and your watch says five minutes to twelve and you eat a slice of cake and go to Communion next morning and then find that your watch was really an hour slow, that is a material sin, because the Church tells you to fast from midnight.
material theory n. rare the theory that heat is a material substance (called ‘caloric’).
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemistry as a science > chemical theories > [noun]
binary theory1863
material theory1863
type-theory1868
Bohr model1923
1863 J. Tyndall Heat (1870) ii. §17. 23 Two rival theories..which are named respectively the material theory, and the dynamical, or mechanical, theory of heat.
material thing n. = material object n.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > materialism > [noun] > objectivism > elements of
material thing1583
material objectness1932
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie clxxxii. 1130/1 They [sc. Papists] make men beleeue that the breade is no more a materiall thing.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. B2v View and enquiry into these sensible and material things . View more context for this quotation
1649 tr. R. Descartes Disc. Method 59 Imagination..is a particular manner of thinking on materiall things.
1733 A. Baxter Enq. Nature Human Soul 277 He supposes that from the surfaces of all material things there are continually flying off thin membranes.
1899 W. James Talks to Teachers vii. 58 The result of all this is that intimate familiarity with the physical environment, that acquaintance with the properties of material things, which is really the foundation of human consciousness.
2000 Newsweek 1 Jan. 68/3 A..nuclear missile is a merely material thing: its fuel goes bad, its space-age gyroscopes are hopelessly old-fashioned.
material witness n. U.S. Law a witness whose evidence is likely to be sufficiently important to influence the outcome of a trial.
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1751 E. Purefoy Let. 19 Feb. in Purefoy Lett. (1931) I. i. 16 Hee may be a materiall witnesse for us about his wive's settlement here.
1799 Hull Advertiser 14 Sept. 3/3 He has been twice examined, but a material witness was wanting.
1859 T. J. Henderson Official Rep. Trial Albert Jackson 334 Refusing to postpone the trial, although an affidavit was regularly filed, stating the absence of material witnesses.
1975 O. Sela Bengali Inheritance ix. 79 I can hold this taxi driver of yours as long as I like. Material witness in a murder case.
C2. Compounds of the noun, with the sense ‘that deals with materials or material’.
a. In singular: see sense A. 2b.
material clerk n.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > non-manual worker > [noun] > clerical > dealing with specific type of business
room clerk1867
material clerk1900
bill-clerk1901
correspondence clerk1906
wage clerk1921
1900 Engin. Mag. 19 707 It is the duty of the material clerk to see that sufficient material is in stock, or ordered, to provide for orders in hand.
1998 Occup. Outlook Handbk. (U. S. Dept. Labor) (Electronic ed.) Other workers who perform similar duties are stock clerks, material clerks, distributing clerks, [etc.].
material control n.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > [noun] > materials handling or control
material control1918
material handling1919
1918 C. E. Knoeppel Organization & Admin. xv. 252 The material control sheet takes care of pieces ordered, pieces rough, pieces in progress, and pieces finished.
1959 Gloss. Terms Work Study (B.S.I.) 33 Material control, procedures and means by which the correct quantity and quality of materials and components are made available to meet production plans.
material handling n.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > [noun] > materials handling or control
material control1918
material handling1919
1919 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 33 479 Four-fifths of the current inconveniences and losses experienced in material handling can be eliminated by detailed knowledge and proper planning.
1921 E. T. Elbourne Factory Admin. & Accts. (new ed.) 807 A form of production service having special reference to material handling and custody.
material man n.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in other specific articles
ironmonger1164
ointer1263
bowyer1297
jewellera1382
fletcher1457
stapler1532
India merchant1618
tobacconist1657
colourman1663
tobacconer1701
lamp-man1704
drysalter1707
snuffman1723
wet-salter1725
potman1732
material man1778
tobacco-trader1840
dogman1860
stamp-dealer1863
waste-dealer1876
pearler1881
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 324 Materials, all tools and tackle, timber and implements, that belong to a Mine; and in large Mines a person is appointed to take care of them, who is called the Material-Man.
1938 Ld. Horne in Daily Tel. 14 Feb. (Finance & Industr. Review) p. xvi/1 In the opinion of many prudent people, it only requires some adjustment in prices between the ship-builders and the material-men and the shipowners to set agoing again the demand for new merchant tonnage.
material testing n.
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1969 R. F. Lang tr. F. A. Henglein Chem. Technol. 315 The so-called technical laboratories..carry out the routine analyses..as well as material testing.
material technology n.
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1991 Offshore Engineer Sept. 121 (advt.) Our proven concept combines the latest design and material technology.
material yard n.
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1901 J. Black Illustr. Carpenter & Builder Ser.: Scaffolding 89 The smaller builder, having..no material yard, has no convenient place to store poles when not in use.
b. In plural.
(a)
materials technology n.
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1962 Technology June 129/1 The course on materials technology will draw on the methods of physics, chemistry, metallurgy and engineering.
materials testing n.
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1924 Trans. Amer. Soc. Mech. Engineers Index 124/2 (heading) Materials testing.
1991 Nucl. Energy June 132/2 The PLUTO Materials Testing Reactor was used to look at the effects of contact between reactor coolant and UO2 fuel pellets.
(b)
materials clerk n. a clerk who controls the supply of materials in a business.
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1904 Daily Chron. 2 June 9/3 Timekeeper and Materials Clerk required by large West-end contractors.
materials control n. control of materials in order to meet the needs of a manufacturing or industrial process.
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1962 A. Battersby Guide to Stock Control 123 The Materials Control office calculated that the increase in the first-grade stock would have to be 200 items to preserve the same risk level as before.
1980 C. S. French Computer Sci. xxxix. 297 Machine loading, materials control, batch size calculations, and machine utilisation are all things which a computer can make more efficient.
materials controller n. a person responsible for materials control.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > [noun] > materials controller
materials controller1962
1962 A. Battersby Guide to Stock Control x. 90 The subordinate would be the Materials Controller: this title is better than the more usual ‘Stock Controller’ because, as we have seen, he controls the flow of materials rather than the stocks themselves.
1998 Managem. Accounting (Electronic ed.) Sept. 38 It turned out I was talking to the factory manager. The other two were introduced to me as the production controller and the materials controller.
materials handling n. the movement and storage of materials in a factory, etc.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > storing in specific place
cellaring1448
housage1803
warehousing1853
yarding1865
materials handling1932
1932 S. J. Koshkin Mod. Materials Handling i. 2 It is of the greatest importance that the materials-handling methods and devices should be sufficiently worked out at the time the plant is designed so as to make them an integral part of the design.
1986 Motor Transport 14 Aug. 12/4 The Institute of Physical Distribution Management has also introduced a course in materials handling.
materials man n. a person responsible for materials required in building, manufacturing, etc. (in quot. 1778 for material man n. at Compounds 2a, for the equipment relating to a mine).
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1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. (ed. 2) xx. 199 A Materials-man selects, purchases, receives and delivers all articles required.
materials yard n. a yard in which materials are stored.
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1997 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) 29 July 1 a J.H. Findorff & Son..is..moving its construction equipment and materials yard to a location on Madison's East Side.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
† materialv.
Obsolete. rare.
1. transitive. To bring into physical or bodily form.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > render material [verb (transitive)]
immerse1605
clod1610
material1643
corporify1644
terrestrify1646
corporize1691
materialize1710
terrestrialize1829
reify1854
thingify1871
sensualize1884
1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §37 That the whole frame of a beast..is left in the same state after death, as before it was materialled unto life. View more context for this quotation
2. transitive (in passive). To consist or be composed of.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > construct > make or furnish material for
material1661
1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing 174 Comets..are materiall'd of vapours.
1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing 216 Plants are partly material'd of water.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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