etherealize

American  

[ih-theer-ee-uh-lahyz] / ɪˈθɪər i əˌlaɪz /

especially British, etherealise

verb (used with object)

etherealized, etherealizing

1. to make ethereal.

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etherealize British  

/ ɪˈθɪərɪəˌlaɪz /

verb

1. to make or regard as being ethereal

2. to add ether to or make into ether or something resembling ether

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Other Word Forms

• etherealization noun

Etymology

Origin of etherealize

First recorded in 1820–30; ethereal + -ize

Example Sentences

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

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

Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual, the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.—Beecher.

From Pearls of Thought by Ballou, Maturin Murray

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

He was not enough of an idealist to etherealize her.

From A Yankee from the West A Novel by Read, Opie Percival