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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Spiritualize  \Spir"it*u*al*ize\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p. 
  {Spiritualized};  p.  pr  &  vb  n.  {Spiritualizing}.]  [Cf.  F. 
  spiritualiser.] 
  1.  To  refine  intellectiually  or  morally;  to  purify  from  the 
  corrupting  influence  of  the  world;  to  give  a  spiritual 
  character  or  tendency  to  as  to  spiritualize  soul. 
 
  This  seen  in  the  clear  air,  and  the  whole 
  spiritualized  by  endless  recollections,  fills  the 
  eye  and  the  heart  more  forcibly  than  I  can  find 
  words  to  say  --Carlyle. 
 
  2.  To  give  a  spiritual  meaning  to  to  take  in  a  spiritual 
  sense  --  opposed  to  {literalize}. 
 
  3.  (Old  Chem.)  To  extract  spirit  from  also  to  convert  into 
  or  impregnate  with  spirit. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  spiritualize 
  v  1:  give  a  spiritual  meaning  to  read  in  a  spiritual  sense  [ant: 
  {literalize}] 
  2:  purify  from  the  corrupting  influences  of  the  world;  "During 
  his  stay  at  the  ashram  he  was  spiritualized" 




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