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supernaturalize

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[soo-per-nach-er-uh-lahyz, -nach-ruh-lahyz] / ˌsu pərˈnætʃ ər əˌlaɪz, -ˈnætʃ rəˌlaɪz /
especially British, supernaturalise

verb (used with object)

supernaturalized, supernaturalizing
  1. to make supernatural; give supernatural character or qualities to.

  2. to consider or interpret as supernatural.


Etymology

Origin of supernaturalize

First recorded in 1635–45; supernatural + -ize


Example Sentences

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And the work of man is to supernaturalize Nature—that is to say, to make it divine by making it human, to help it to become conscious of itself, in short.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch

They are the vengeance-demanding part of ourselves objectified, supernaturalized, and named.

From Foes by Mary Johnston

Herr Tuyfeldock, my boy, the high-Dutch cosmopolitan, supernaturalized the last meeting of the club with his old-fashioned story of HERMANN, THE DEMENTED.

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

My mind, then, has to be supernaturalized and refined to that pitch of perception which will enable it to grasp and to understand God's message.

From The Abiding Presence of the Holy Ghost in the Soul by Bede Jarrett

No barbarian ever deified, or supernaturalized, every process around him; there must always have been a portion of his experience entertained merely as experience.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various

He has laid down the Natural Life of His Body to take it back again supernaturalized for ever.

From Paradoxes of Catholicism by Robert Hugh Benson

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