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spiritualism |
spiritualist |
spiritualistic |
spirituality |
spiritualization |
spiritualize
| spiritualizer
| spiritually
| spiritualness
| spiritualty
| spirituelle
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spiritualize
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb spiritualize has 3 senses
- spiritualize(v = verb.cognition) spiritualise - give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense; Array is one way to construe, interpret, see
- spiritualize(v = verb.change) glorify, transfigure - elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration; Array is one way to alter, change, modify
- spiritualize(v = verb.change) spiritualise - purify from the corrupting influences of the world; "During his stay at the ashram he was spiritualized" is one way to purge, purify, sanctify
Antonym: literalize
Derived form noun spiritualization1
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Derived form noun spiritualization1
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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.
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, winnowROGET 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.
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