Category:Spiritualize

Spir"it*u*al*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spiritualized; p. pr. & vb. n. Spiritualizing.] Etym: [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.)

Defn: to extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate With, spirit.