unsensualize

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unsensualize (third-person singular simple present unsensualizes, present participle unsensualizing, simple past and past participle unsensualized)

(transitive) To elevate from the domain of the senses; to purify.
- March 25, 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Watchman
  Hence the soft couch, and many-colour'd robe,
  The timbrel and arch'd dome and costly feast,
  With all th' inventive arts that nurse the soul
  To forms of beauty; and by sensual wants
  Unsensualize the mind, which in the Means
  Learns to forget the grossness of the End,
  Best pleasur'd with its own activity.