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Spiritualize v. t. (past & past part. spiritualized; pres. part. spiritualizing)

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."

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

(Old Chem.) To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spiritualize" Quotes from Famous Books

... conception of the matter struck me. It is intolerable for a human being to go on doing any task as a penance, under duress. No matter what the work is, one must spiritualize it in some way, shatter the old idea of it into bits and rebuild it nearer to the heart's desire. How was I to ...

— The Haunted Bookshop • Christopher Morley

... a mysterious way, he would confess that he once thought differently. In his idle and dreamy days he had considered it possible, in a certain sense, to spiritualize machinery, and to combine with the new species of life and motion thus produced a beauty that should attain to the ideal which Nature has proposed to herself in all her creatures, but has never ...

— Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... how near together geographically were once the Hindus and Persians. Whether one puts the place of separation at the Kabul or further to the north-west is a matter of indifference. The Persians borrow the idea of Varuna Asura, whose eye is the sun. They spiritualize this, and create an Asura unknown ...

— The Religions of India - Handbooks On The History Of Religions, Volume 1, Edited By Morris Jastrow • Edward Washburn Hopkins