a. Obs. [f. COM- + MATERIAL.] Identical in matter or material.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 757. The Beakes in Birds, which are Commateriall with Teeth. Ibid., § 771. That the Body Adiacent and Ambient be not Commateriall, but merely Heterogeneall towards the Body that is to bee preserued.
Hence † Commateriality.
1730–6. Bailey (folio), Commateriality, the Quality of being of the same Matter, etc. with another.
1755. in Johnson; whence in mod. Dicts.
