(transitive) To cause to take physical form, or to cause an object to appear.
Epes SargentIt is asserted that in a series of sittings extending through several months a female spirit form, temporarily materialized and not distinguishable from a human being, repeatedly came from a cabinet into the light...
(intransitive) To take physical form, to appear seemingly from nowhere.
(transitive) To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.
