The Collaborative International Dictionary
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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Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.
The material elements of the universe.
--Whewell. 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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Of solid or weighty character; not insubstantial; of consequence; not be dispensed with; important; significant.
Discourse, which was always material, never trifling.
--Evelyn.I shall, in the account of simple ideas, set down only such as are most material to our present purpose.
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(Logic.) Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. See Matter.
Material cause. See under Cause.
Material evidence (Law), evidence which conduces to the proof or disproof of a relevant hypothesis.
--Wharton.Syn: Corporeal; bodily; important; weighty; momentous; essential.
Wikipedia
Material Evidence (Russian Вещдоки) is an international exhibition first presented in Russia in 2013 by Vladislav Shurigin and Denis Tukmakov with direct financial support from Zhurnalistskaya Pravda (Journalistic Truth), a Moscow-based newspaper, indirectly financed by Internet Research Agency. Both Shurigin and Tukmakov are authors of for far right magazine Zavtra, members of the National Bolshevik Party and nationalist Izborsk Club. The exhibition displays a strongly anti-Western and pro-Russian view on civil conflicts in Syria, Ukraine, Iraq and Afghanistan. It is advertised as an "evidence of USA aggression" and the section on Ukraine describes the events of surrounding Euromaidan as "upsurge of nationalists-banderovtsy groups" and War in Donbass as "opposition against banderovtsy and Western Oligarchs".
Usage examples of "material evidence".
We have no material evidence of any wrongdoing on the part of the Talamasca.
He appointed Hansen to act as Cencom's representative in his absence, contacted Captain Bymer and told him to send down the landing shuttle to take material evidence of the attack by the spaceskiffs on board for storage.
I was left, in short, with only two pieces of material evidence, the forged letter and the post - mark on the wrapper, on which the whole structure of proof must be erected.
Our criminal, in the panic of the moment, realized one thing: he must get rid of the one piece of incriminating material evidence.
Some have criticized this effort because it shows that my faith in the nonexistence of the immaterial is so blind that I refuse to believe even the material evidence of immateriality.
The old mats were lying on the table as the objects of material evidence.
Should he stay with the planetoid to its end, and thus perforce return to Eddore with no material evidence whatever?
And such material evidence as has already been found has been picked clean, over and over, by numerous investigating teams.