spiritize
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spiritize (third-person singular simple present spiritizes, present participle spiritizing, simple past and past participle spiritized)
- (transitive) To imbue with a spirit or soul.
- 1893, John Henry Barrows, The World's Parliament of Religions, page 617:
- To spiritize a stone, a block of wood, one must first have believed in a spirit; to have there imprisoned a god, one must have beforehand believed in a divinity.