The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Material \Ma*te"ri*al\, n.
   The substance or matter of which anything is made or may be
   made.
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   Raw material, any crude, unfinished, or elementary
      materials that are adapted to use only by processes of
      skilled labor. Cotton, wool, ore, logs, etc., are raw
      material.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Material \Ma*te"ri*al\, a. [L. materialis, fr. materia stuff,
   matter: cf. F. mat['e]riel. See Matter, and cf.
   Mat['e]riel.]
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   1. Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical;
      as, material substance or bodies.
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            The material elements of the universe. --Whewell.
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   2. Hence: Pertaining to, or affecting, the physical nature of
      man, as distinguished from the mental or moral nature;
      relating to the bodily wants, interests, and comforts; as,
      material well-being; material comforts.
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   3. Of solid or weighty character; not insubstantial; of
      consequence; not be dispensed with; important;
      significant.
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            Discourse, which was always material, never
            trifling.                             --Evelyn.
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            I shall, in the account of simple ideas, set down
            only such as are most material to our present
            purpose.                              --Locke.
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   4. (Logic.) Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form,
      of a thing. See Matter.
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   Material cause. See under Cause.

   Material evidence (Law), evidence which conduces to the
      proof or disproof of a relevant hypothesis. --Wharton.
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   Syn: Corporeal; bodily; important; weighty; momentous;
        essential.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Material \Ma*te"ri*al\, v. t.
   To form from matter; to materialize. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
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The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):

MATERIAL, adj.  Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an
imaginary one.  Important.

    Material things I know, or fell, or see;
    All else is immaterial to me.
                                                      Jamrach Holobom


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

384 Moby Thesaurus words for "material":
   Adamic, Circean, Formica, Masonite, Philistine, a propos, ab ovo,
   absolute, abundance, accumulation, actual, ad rem, adducible,
   admissible, air, amassment, animal, animalistic, apparatus,
   appertaining, applicable, applying, apposite, appreciable,
   appropriate, apropos, asphalt, atom, atomic particles, atoms,
   attestative, attestive, authentic, backlog, ballpoint pen, basal,
   based on, basic, beastlike, beastly, bedrock, being, belonging,
   bestial, bibliography, big, big-league, big-name, big-time, bigwig,
   bigwigged, blackboard, blacktop, bodily, body of knowledge,
   body of learning, brick, brutal, brute, brute matter, brutish,
   budget, building block, canvas, cardinal, carnal, carnal-minded,
   carpeting, central, certain, chalk, chemical element,
   circumstantial, clapboard, cloth, coarse, cobblestone, collection,
   commissariat, commissary, component, components, conclusive,
   concrete, consequential, considerable, constituent, constituents,
   constitutive, convincing, core, cork tile, cornucopia, corporal,
   corporeal, crayon, cumulation, cumulative, cyclopedia, damning,
   data, decisive, determinative, distillate, distillation,
   documentary, documentation, documented, documents, double-barreled,
   drapery, dump, earth, earthly, earthshaking, earthy, element,
   elemental, elementary, elementary particle, elementary unit,
   elements, elixir, encyclopedia, entity, equipment, eraser, essence,
   essential, etoffe, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte, eye-witness,
   fabric, facts, factual, fallen, felt, fiber glass, figures, final,
   fire, firsthand, flag, flagging, flagstone, fleshly, flooring,
   focal, founded on, fundamental, fundamental particle, gear,
   germane, gist, goods, grand, great, gross, grounded on, gut,
   habiliments, heap, hearsay, heart, heavyweight, high-powered,
   hoard, hyle, hylic, hypostasis, implicit, important, in point,
   incontrovertible, indicative, indispensable, indisputable,
   individual, information, ingredient, ink, inkhorn, inkstand,
   inkwell, inventory, invisible ink, involving, irrefutable,
   irresistible, kernel, lace, lapsed, larder, lay, lead pencil,
   life-and-death, life-or-death, linoleum, literature, lore, macadam,
   machinery, major, marrow, mass, material world, materialistic,
   materiality, materials, materiate, materiel, matter, meaningful,
   means, meat, medium, molecule, momentous, monad, mundane,
   munitions, name, napery, natural world, nature, nib, nonspiritual,
   notes, nub, nuncupative, object, objective, of the essence,
   of vital importance, orgiastic, original, outfit, overwhelming,
   palpable, pantile, paper, papers, paraphernalia, parquet, pavement,
   pavestone, paving, pen, perceptible, pertaining, pertinent,
   phenomenal, physical, physical world, pile, pith, plasterboard,
   plenitude, plenty, plenum, plume, plywood, ponderable,
   postlapsarian, presumptive, primal, primary, primitive, probative,
   provisionment, provisions, publications, quill, quintessence,
   radical, rag, rations, real, reed, relevant, reliable, repertoire,
   repertory, research, resources, rick, roofage, roofing,
   roofing paper, sap, secular, self-important, sensible, sensual,
   serious, shake, sheathing board, sheeting, shingle, siding,
   significant, silk, slate, solid, somatic, soul, spirit, spun glass,
   stack, statistics, stencil, stock, stock-in-trade, stockpile,
   stone, store, store of knowledge, stores, stuff, style, stylograph,
   stylus, substance, substantial, substantive, substratum,
   suggestive, sum and substance, superior, supplies, supply on hand,
   sure, swinish, sympathetic ink, symptomatic, system of knowledge,
   table, tablet, tackle, tackling, tangible, tar paper, telling,
   temporal, terrestrial, textile, textile fabric, texture, thatch,
   the four elements, tile, tilestone, tiling, tissu, tissue,
   to the point, to the purpose, treasure, treasury,
   treasury of information, true, underlying, unit of being,
   unspiritual, valid, veneer, vital, wainscoting, wallboard, walling,
   wallpaper, water, weatherboard, weave, web, weft, weighty, wood,
   woof, wool, world-shaking, worldly