A material form is a form that is not an immaterial subsistent; it exists either as an accident in a corporeal subject or as a substantial form in a corporeal subject, and does not subsist.
We can tell whether a form imbues its parts in the manner required of a substantial form by attending to the effect of the form's existence on the functionality of the parts.
Considered as a substantial form of a material body, the soul exists in a living being as the substantial form of an animal.
In substantial generation or destruction, a substantial form is gained or lost; in mere accidental change, the form gained or lost is itself accidental.
Thomas Aquinas rejected the idea that prior to the intellective soul there exists a substantial form in matter (Summa theol. Ia q. 76 a. 4, a. 6).
"The local models are very important, but it is clear for basic income to really work, it must be implemented in a more substantial form at a national level," said Nogarin.
The innovation of this building was not in the house, where the audience still sat on benches around three sides, but in the attempt to re-create a Roman scaenae frons in a more substantial form.
It offers, in a vastly more substantial form, a parallel to my own view of movies.
According to Godfrey prime matter is pure potentiality and can never be kept in existence without some substantial form, not even by God.
A simple object is any item in a category: a particular substance, substantial form, or accidental form (De sup., p. 31; TsP, ch. de subiecto et praedicato, fols. 173vb-174ra; EPhys., prol., fol. 5vb; EP, ch. de subiecto et praedicato, fol. 20ra).
In January 1976 the band took a more substantial form when Ceccagno formed Malice with Smith and Dempsey along with two other classmates from St. Wilfrid's Catholic Comprehensive School, with Ceccagno on lead, Smith on guitar and Dempsey switching to bass.
