spiritualize
verb (used with object)
to make spiritual.
spiritualise
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a variation of
spiritualize.
Example Sentences
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Liberal thinkers endeavoured to spiritualise the creed and prove its essential truths by philosophy, independently of the particular historical evidence.
From The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill by Sir Leslie Stephen
He could not be mistaken, ergo they must spiritualise his words.
From My Path to Atheism by Annie Wood Besant
Luria seized upon this mystical idea, and used it at once to spiritualise the Sabbath and attach to it an ecstatic joyousness.
From Judaism by Israel Abrahams
How to spiritualise education is the real problem, for it is only by a spiritualised education that we can escape from the avalanche of materialism that is hanging over the European world just now.
From Cambridge Essays on Education by Various
But the democracy of his desire and faith was one not devoted to material interests; to spiritualise the democracy became henceforth his aim.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edmund Gosse
