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spiritualize

American  
[spir-i-choo-uh-lahyz] / ˈspɪr ɪ tʃu əˌlaɪz /
especially British, spiritualise

verb (used with object)

spiritualized, spiritualizing
  1. to make spiritual.

  2. to invest with a spiritual meaning.


spiritualize British  
/ ˈspɪrɪtjʊəˌlaɪz /

verb

  1. (tr) to make spiritual or infuse with spiritual content

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of spiritualize

First recorded in 1625–35; spiritual + -ize

Example Sentences

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Though I admit, I myself am tempted to spiritualize decomposition.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2018

Skeptical of progress, Cole painted the landscape as Arcadia, which served to spiritualize the past in a land without antique monuments.

From Time Magazine Archive

The monk Athenaय perceives in a vision that his mission is to spiritualize Thaïs, to make her the bride of Christ.

From Time Magazine Archive

It also did so on a grander scale, binding an immense continent with tracks and producing trains of such magnificence that they moved Nathaniel Hawthorne to exclaim: "They spiritualize travel!"

From Time Magazine Archive

Whilst, therefore, the theory of Heraclitus seems to materialize mind, it may, with equal fairness, be said to spiritualize matter.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

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