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spiritualize
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As a verb, spiritualize means make spiritual.
Meanings of spiritualize
6 meaningsverb
To make spiritual; to invoke spirituality.
To refine intellectually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to.
To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; opposed to literalize.
Elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration
Similar: transfigure, glorify
Older and rare meanings (2)
chemistryobsoleteTo extract spirit.
chemistryobsoleteTo convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).
Synonyms by meaning
verb: give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense
spiritualise
verb: elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration
verb: purify from the corrupting influences of the world
spiritualise
Oppositesliteralize
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