v. [f. as prec. + -IZE.]
1. trans. To make substantial; to give reality to.
1821. H. Reeder, Dis. Heart, Pref. The diseases discriminated … and their nature substantialized by actual demonstration of morbid changes.
1866. Howells, Venetian Life, iv. 50. That strange life, which even the stout … little Bohemian musicians … could not altogether substantialize.
1876. L. Stephen, Eng. Th. 18th C., I. 65. The universe … is nothing but a series of abstract truths … substantialised by their reference to God.
2. intr. To become substantial in appearance.
1895. P. Lowell, in Atlantic Monthly, Aug., 226/1. They [spots on Mars] then proceed to substantialize by darkening in tint throughout.
