mattereth

Verb

matter (third-person singular simple present matters, present participle mattering, simple past and past participle mattered)

1. (intransitive, stative) To be important.
   • The only thing that matters to Jim is being rich.

   Synonyms:

   signify

2. (Caribbean, England, regional, transitive) To care about, to mind; to find important.
   • Besides, if it had been out of doors I had not mattered it so much; but with my own servant, in my own house, under my own roof […], Folio Society 1973, p.47
3. (archaic, intransitive) To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.
   • Each slight sore mattereth.a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London...

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