| Materia medica |
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Material or substance used in the composition of remedies;
a general term for all substances used as curative agents in medicine. |
| Materia medica |
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That branch of medical science which treats of the nature and properties of all the substances that are employed for the cure of diseases. |
| Material |
a. |
Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies. |
| Material |
a. |
Hence: Pertaining to, or affecting, the physical nature of man, as distinguished from the mental or moral nature; relating to the bodily wants, interests, and comforts. |
| Material |
a. |
Of solid or weighty character; not insubstantial; of cinsequence; not be dispensed with; important. |
| Material |
a. |
Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. See Matter. |
| Material |
n. |
The substance or matter of which anything is made or may be made. |
| Material |
v. t. |
To form from matter; to materialize. |
| Materialism |
n. |
The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets. |
| Materialism |
n. |
The tendency to give undue importance to material interests; devotion to the material nature and its wants. |
| Materialism |
n. |
Material substances in the aggregate; matter. |
| Materialist |
n. |
One who denies the existence of spiritual substances or agents, and maintains that spiritual phenomena, so called, are the result of some peculiar organization of matter. |
| Materialist |
n. |
One who holds to the existence of matter, as distinguished from the idealist, who denies it. |
| Materialistic |
a. |
Alt. of Materialistical |
| Materialistical |
a. |
Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the nature of materialism. |
| Materiality |
n. |
The quality or state of being material; material existence; corporeity. |
| Materiality |
n. |
Importance; as, the materiality of facts. |
| Materialization |
n. |
The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized. |
| Materialize |
v. t. |
To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects. |
| Materialize |
v. t. |
To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter. |
| Materialize |
v. t. |
To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to materialize thought. |
| Materialize |
v. t. |
To make visable in, or as in, a material form;
said of spirits. |
| Materialize |
v. i. |
To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape. |
| Materialized |
imp. & p. p. |
of Materialize |
| Materializing |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Materialize |
| Materially |
adv. |
In the state of matter. |
| Materially |
adv. |
In its essence; substantially. |
| Materially |
adv. |
In an important manner or degree; essentaily; as, it materially concern us to know the real motives of our actions. |
| Materialness |
n. |
The state of being material. |
| Materiarian |
n. |
See Materialist. |
| Materiate |
a. |
Alt. of Materiated |
| Materiated |
a. |
Consisting of matter. |
| Materiation |
n. |
Act of forming matter. |
