Meanings
- obsoleteuncountableThe act of creating matter; materialization
a materiation even of matter itself
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
Origin
- Latinmateriatio“woodwork”
- Englishmateriation
From Latin materiatio (“woodwork”).
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