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material
1. cloth or fabric
2. Philosophy composed of or relating to physical as opposed to mental or spiritual substance
3. Philosophy of or relating to matter as opposed to form
4. Law relevant to the issue before court: applied esp to facts or testimony of much significance


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A MORAL Principle met a Material Interest on a bridge wide enough for but one.
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A Bricklayer earnestly recommended bricks as affording the best material for an effective resistance.
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Meanwhile the physicists, especially Einstein and other exponents of the theory of relativity, have been making "matter" less and less material.
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