spiritualize

English

Alternative forms

spiritualise

Etymology

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.
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

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)

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