vi to appear as a material form; to take substantial shape.
2. materialize ·vt to make visable in, or as in, a material form;
said of spirits.
3. materialize ·vt to regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
4. materialize ·vt to cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to materialize thought.
5. materialize ·vt to invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.