spiritualize

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: spir=it=u=al=ize

CIDE DICTIONARY

spiritualize, v. t. [Cf. F. spiritualiser.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "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."  [1913 Webster]
•  To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; -- opposed to literalize.  [1913 Webster]
•  To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

spiritualize, v.tr. (also -ise)
1 make (a person or a person's character, thoughts, etc.) spiritual; elevate.
2 attach a spiritual as opposed to a literal meaning to.

Derivative

spiritualization n.

THESAURUS

spiritualize

attenuate, bolt, clarify, clear, decrassify, dematerialize, depurate, disembody, disincarnate, distill, edulcorate, elute, enervate, essentialize, etherealize, extract, filter, filtrate, idealize, immaterialize, insubstantialize, leach, lixiviate, percolate, purify, rarefy, rectify, refine, sap, screen, separate, sieve, sift, spiritize, strain, sublimate, sublime, subtilize, try, unsubstantialize, weaken, winnow

ROGET THESAURUS

spiritualize

Immateriality

VB disembody, spiritualize.

Reasoning,

VB reason, argue, discuss, debate, dispute, wrangle, argufy, bandy words, bandy arguments, chop logic, hold an argument, carry on an argument, controvert, canvass, comment upon, moralize upon, spiritualize, consider, open a discussion, open a case, try conclusions, join issue, be at issue, moot, come to the point, stir a question, agitate a question, ventilate a question, torture a question, take up a side, take up a case, contend, take one's stand upon, insist, lay stress on, infer, follow from.