spiritualize
English
Alternative forms
Verb
spiritualize (third-person singular simple present spiritualizes, present participle spiritualizing, simple past and past participle spiritualized)
- To make spiritual; to invoke spirituality.
- To refine intellectually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to.
- Carlyle
- This seen in the clear air, and the whole spiritualized by endless recollections, fills the eye and the heart more forcibly than I can find words to say.
- Carlyle
- To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; opposed to literalize.
- (chemistry, obsolete) To extract spirit.
- (chemistry, obsolete) To convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.
Translations
to make spiritual
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to refine intellectually or morally
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to give spiritual meaning to
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