spiritualize

English

Alternative forms

• spiritualise

Etymology

From spiritual +‎ -ize.

Verb

spiritualize (third-person singular simple present spiritualizes, present participle spiritualizing, simple past and past participle spiritualized)

1. To make spiritual; to invoke spirituality.
2. To refine intellectually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to.
   • 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:

     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.

3. To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; opposed to literalize.
4. (chemistry, obsolete) To extract spirit.
5. (chemistry, obsolete) To convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.

Translations

to make spiritual

• Finnish: henkistää, hengellistää
• French: spiritualiser (fr)

to refine intellectually or morally

• Finnish: henkistää

to give spiritual meaning to

• Finnish: henkistää, hengellistää

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• Portuguese: ^{(please verify)} espiritualizar
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} espiritualizar (es)