etherealize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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to make or regard as being ethereal
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to add ether to or make into ether or something resembling ether
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Since not even camera magic can etherealize perdurable Angel MacDonald, this is one dream to stump Freud�especially when DreamerEddy takes his Angel for a dream honeymoon in Paris.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was well aware of the proportions of things; he had no despair of the Idea, nor would he despair should the Idea etherealize and fly away.
From The Imperialist by Duncan, Sara Jeannette
At midnight few scenes could be more calm and beautiful, so tenderly did the light of the moon soften and etherealize everything.
From His Sombre Rivals by Roe, Edward Payson
She would seek to improve on Nature's handiwork; she would etherealize it, make it so dainty that it would become poetry instead of the beautiful plain language the universal mother sometimes speaks.
From A Top-Floor Idyl by Van Schaick, George
Angels, as some represent them, even in whole lengths, are by anatomists regarded as monsters; but what then are the chubby winged heads without bodies, with which some artists etherealize their works.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828 by Various
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