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spiritualize |
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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