spiritualize
verb (used with object)
to make spiritual.
spiritualise
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a variation of
spiritualize.
Example Sentences
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Her whole effort was to spiritualise the public life of England.
From Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality by Harold Begbie
Hence the fast has a distinct importance in and for itself, and it is regrettable that the laudable desire to spiritualise the day is leading to a depreciation of the fast as such.
From Judaism by Israel Abrahams
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
The motto, "Let us eat and drink for to-morrow we die," is capable of spiritualisation, and if you spiritualise that motto it becomes poisonous indeed.
From Among Famous Books by John Kelman
Mistake me not, my brethren; I don't mean in a carnal, but in a spiritual sense, for I propose to spiritualise these things.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 by Charles Mackay
