SPIRITUALIZE

spiritualize, spiritualise

(verb) purify from the corrupting influences of the world; “During his stay at the ashram he was spiritualized”

transfigure, glorify, spiritualize

(verb) elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ’s transfiguration

spiritualize, spiritualise

(verb) give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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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.

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.

Source: Wiktionary

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Spir"it*u*al*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spiritualized; p. pr. & vb. n. Spiritualizing.] Etym: [Cf. F. spiritualiser.]

1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. 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.

2. To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; -- opposed to literalize.

3. (Old Chem.)

Definition: To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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