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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Matter  \Mat"ter\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Mattered};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Mattering}.] 
  1.  To  be  of  importance;  to  import;  to  signify. 
 
  It  matters  not  how  they  were  called  --Locke. 
 
  2.  To  form  pus  or  matter,  as  an  abscess;  to  maturate.  [R.] 
  ``Each  slight  sore  mattereth.''  --Sir  P.  Sidney. 




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