Do we say materiel or material

materiel 12 occurrences

These were all sent off in a van early one morning, and after luncheon I went over, having given rendezvous to Pontecoulant and M. Kruft, chef du materiel, an excellent, intelligent man, who was most useful and devoted to me the two years I lived at the ministry.

No telegrams had come, but Kruft, our faithful and efficient chef du materiel, was waiting for me for last instructions about a Christmas tree.

Kruft, chef du materiel at Quai d'Orsay.

gear; tackle, tackling, rig, rigging, apparatus, appliances; plant, materiel; harness, trappings, fittings, accouterments; barde^; equipment, equipmentage^; appointments, furniture, upholstery; chattels; paraphernalia &c (belongings)

Heavy howitzers destroy the materiel, while shrapnel, falling nearly vertically, and bursting among the men, render all operations impossible upon an open terre-plein.

Of his name, birth, or descent, nothing was known; but the fecundity of conjecture had supplied an unfailing stock of materiel on these points.

We have known for a long time that the artillery materiel devoted to the defense of the German coasts consists of a long, stationary inch gun; of long inch hooped steel guns, closed by a cylindrico-prismatic wedge; of an 8 inch mortar; and of guns of 11¾ and 15 inch caliber.

It is not with materiel of this kind that war is waged; it is with field pieces.

One of the reasons that the war that very recently threatened us did not break out, was because the Germans could not fail to see that their field materiel was not as powerful as ours; that the shell of our inch gun weighs 17½ pounds, while that of their heavy inch gun does not weigh 15.

Finally, if we must say so, we do not think that foreign powers, when they believe it their duty to provide themselves with materiel of great caliber, will think of supplying themselves from the Essen works, on account of the memorable accidents due to the imperfection of guns coming from this celebrated establishment.

" The sheikh is held in great veneration by all the tribes, who fly to Fellahi at his summons, bringing their own materiel of war.

Under the magic of progress, war in its essence and vitality is really diminishing, even while increasing in materiel and grandeur.

material 7806 occurrences

" Indianapolis Star:"From cover to cover, the 542 pages are filled with material for 'fanning bees,' which the average 'fan' never before encountered.

The atmosphere of Vernon has a wonderful power," but it was not of the material ozone she was thinking as she spoke.

Plants are so unobtrusive in their material processes, and always at the significant moment some other bloom has reached its perfect hour.

They have the wit to win sustenance from the raw material of life without intervention, but they have not the sleek look of the women whom the social organization conspires to nourish.

With Obregon, also, were regiments of Yaqui Indians, who are excellent fighting material.

When we deal with it we deal with an impersonal element, a material piece of society.

What a low, material view of love, to fancy that you can cut it up into so many pieces, like a cake, and give to one person one tit-bit, and another to another, as the Popish books would have you believe!

'You may laugh, if you will, at both, and say again, as I have heard you say ere now, that the popular Christian paradise and hell are but a Pagan Olympus and Tartarus, as grossly material as Mahomet's, without the honest thorough-going sexuality, which you thought made his notion logical and consistent. . . .

Its purpose is to indicate the Natural Principles governing the relation between Mental Action and Material Conditions, and thus to afford the student an intelligible starting-point for the practical study of the subject.

This distinction should be carefully noted because it is by the response of the atomic intelligence to the individual intelligence that thought-power is able to produce results on the material plane, as in the cure of disease by mental treatment, and

The subjective entity in the patient is able to diagnose the character of the disease from which he is suffering and to point out suitable remedies, indicating a physiological knowledge exceeding that of the most highly trained physicians, and also a knowledge of the correspondences between diseased conditions of the bodily organs and the material remedies which can afford relief.

And from this it is but a step further to those numerous instances in which it entirely dispenses with the use of material remedies and itself works directly on the organism, so that complete restoration to health follows as the result of the suggestions of perfect soundness made by the operator to the patient while in the hypnotic state.

Again, if our fixed belief is that certain material remedies are the only means of cure, then we find in this belief the foundation of all medicine.

If we thus habituate ourselves to look on the spiritual prototype as the essential being of the thing, and the material form as the growth of this prototype into outward expression, then we shall see that the initial step to the production of any external fact must be the creation of its spiritual prototype.

By thus making intelligent use of our subjective mind, we, so to speak, create a nucleus, which is no sooner created than it begins to exercise an attractive force, drawing to itself material of a like character with its own, and if this process is allowed to go on undisturbed, it will continue until an external form corresponding to the nature of the nucleus comes out into manifestation on the plane of the objective and relative.

Now if this be the universal method of Nature, there is nothing unnatural in supposing that it must begin its operation at a stage further back than the formation of the material nucleus.

As soon as that is called into being it begins to operate by the law of attraction on the material plane; but what is the force which originates the material nucleus?

As soon as that is called into being it begins to operate by the law of attraction on the material plane; but what is the force which originates the material nucleus?

Employed in the former way our intellect becomes the greatest hindrance to our success, for it only helps to increase our doubts, since it is trying to grasp particulars which, at the time are entirely outside its circle of vision; but employed in the latter it affords the most material aid in maintaining that nucleus without which there is no centre from which the principle of growth can assert itself.

His function is, not to create, but to combine and distribute that which is already in being, and what we call our creations are new combinations of already existing material, whether mental or corporeal.

We are especially sorry to see a plate of Thomas's house in Fifth Avenue, New York,the most absurd and ludicrous pile of building material which can be found on the avenue,and to find such evidence of taste as is shown by the editor's commendation of it as "uniting richness and grandeur of effect," "admirably suited," etc.

Thus kings have reigned by the will of the people,or, as they call it, by the grace of God,from Saul and David to our own times, except in those few countries where liberty is preferred to material power and military laurels.

In one sense Solomon left nothing to his nation but monuments of despotic power, and trophies of a material civilization which implied the decay of primitive virtues.

A central aisle runs directly up to the pulpit, and it is flanked with a range of high old-fashioned pews, some being plain, a few lined with a red-coloured material, and several with faded green baize, occasionally tacked back and elaborated with good old- fashioned brass nails.

This country has the province of Mosul and Meridin on the east, or Diarbekir; and on the north is Zorzania, where there is a fountain that discharges a liquid resembling oil; which, though it cannot be used as a seasoning for meat, is yet useful for burning in lamps, and for many other purposes; and it is found in sufficient quantities to load camels, and to form a material object of commerce.

Do we say   materiel   or  material