materialize Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb come into being; become reality
happen; materialise.
- Her dream really materialized

Cf. F. matérialiser.

imperfect & past participle Materialized ; present participle & verbal noun Materializing

To invest wich material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.
Having wich 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. Tatler.
To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to materialize thought.
(Spiritualism) To make visable in, or as in, a material form; -- said of spirits.
A female spirit form temporarily materialized, and not distinguishable from a human being. Epes Sargent.