materialization
(mətɪərɪəlaɪˈzeɪʃən)
[f. next + -ation.]
The action of the verb materialize.
1. The making a thing material (esp. as opposed to spiritual); the giving a material form to.
| 1843 For. & Col. Q. Rev. II. 338 Is not this symbolization or materialization necessarily connected with deism in the abstract? 1856 R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) II. ix. i. 125 The materialization of spiritual truth. 1899 W. R. Inge Chr. Mysticism vii. 263 A truer view sees in them [miracles] a materialisation of mystical symbols. |
2. Spiritualism. The appearance of a spirit in bodily form.
| 1880 in Webster, Suppl. 1881 Dr. Gheist 39 This is what Mr. Faxton calls Materialisation. 1882 Conf. Medium 47 We changed the form of the circle for the materialisations. |