spiritualize (English, verb)
expansion: spiritualize (third-person singular simple present spiritualizes, present participle spiritualizing, simple past and past participle spiritualized)
Senses:
glosses: To make spiritual; to invoke spirituality.
glosses: To refine intellectually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to.
glosses: To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; opposed to literalize.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To extract spirit.
tags: obsolete
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.
tags: obsolete
Forms:
form: spiritualizes
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spiritualizing
tags: participle
present
form: spiritualized
tags: participle
past
form: spiritualized
tags: past
form: spiritualise
tags: alternative