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SECTION I.<br />

MATTER IN GENERAL<br />

316. Materiality -- N. materiality, materialness; corporeity † , corporality † ; substantiality,<br />

substantialness, flesh and blood, plenum; physical condition.<br />

matter, body, substance, brute matter, stuff, element, principle, parenchyma [Biol.],<br />

material, substratum, hyle † , corpus, pabulum; frame.<br />

object, article, thing, something; still life; stocks and stones; materials &c 635.<br />

[Science of matter] physics; somatology † , somatics; natural philosophy, experimental<br />

philosophy; physicism † ; physical science, philosophie positive [Fr.], materialism;<br />

materialist; physicist; somatism † , somatist † .<br />

Adj. material, bodily; corporeal, corporal; physical; somatic, somatoscopic † ; sensible,<br />

tangible, ponderable, palpable, substantial.<br />

objective, impersonal, nonsubjective † , neuter, unspiritual, materialistic.<br />

317. Immateriality -- N. immateriality, immaterialness; incorporeity † , spirituality;<br />

inextension † ; astral plane.<br />

personality; I, myself, me; ego, spirit &c (soul) 450; astral body; immaterialism † ;<br />

spiritualism, spiritualist.<br />

V. disembody, spiritualize.<br />

Adj. immaterial, immateriate † ; incorporeal, incorporal † ; incorporate, unfleshly † ;<br />

supersensible † ; asomatous † , unextended † ; unembodied † , disembodied; extramundane,<br />

unearthly; pneumatoscopic † ; spiritual &c (psychical) 450 [Obs.].<br />

personal, subjective, nonobjective.<br />

318. World -- N. world, creation, nature, universe; earth, globe, wide world; cosmos;<br />

kosmos † ; terraqueous globe † , sphere; macrocosm, megacosm † ; music of the spheres.<br />

heavens, sky, welkin † , empyrean; starry cope, starry heaven, starry host; firmament;<br />

Midgard; supersensible regions † ; varuna; vault of heaven, canopy of heaven; celestial<br />

spaces.<br />

heavenly bodies, stars, asteroids; nebulae; galaxy, milky way, galactic circle, via<br />

lactea [Lat.], ame no kawa [Jap.].<br />

sun, orb of day, Apollo † , Phoebus; photosphere, chromosphere; solar system; planet,<br />

planetoid; comet; satellite, moon, orb of night, Diana, silver-footed queen; aerolite † ,<br />

meteor; planetary ring; falling star, shooting star; meteorite, uranolite † .<br />

constellation, zodiac, signs of the zodiac, Charles's wain, Big Dipper, Little Dipper,<br />

Great Bear, Southern Cross, Orion's belt, Cassiopea's chair, Pleiades.<br />

colures † , equator, ecliptic, orbit.<br />

[Science of heavenly bodies] astronomy; uranography, uranology † ; cosmology,<br />

cosmography † , cosmogony; eidouranion † , orrery; geodesy &c (measurement) 466; star<br />

gazing, star gazer † ; astronomer; observatory; planetarium.<br />

Adj. cosmic, cosmical † ; mundane, terrestrial, terrestrious † , terraqueous † , terrene,<br />

terreous † , telluric, earthly, geotic † , under the sun; sublunary † , subastral † .<br />

solar, heliacal † ; lunar; celestial, heavenly, sphery † ; starry, stellar; sidereal, sideral † ;<br />

astral; nebular; uranic.<br />

Adv. in all creation, on the face of the globe, here below, under the sun.

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