verb · intransitive · rare

spiritualize

spiritualize · spiritualizes · spiritualized · spiritualizing

To make spiritual; to invoke spiritualityTo make spiritual; to invoke spirituality.

Meaning

5 senses

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.
purify from the corrupting influences of the world
To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; opposed to literalize.
give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense
(obsolete)To extract spirit.
(obsolete)To convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.

2 languages

spiritualizes, spiritualizing, spiritualized, spiritualized

Base form	spiritualize · to spiritualize
3rd person singular	spiritualizes
Present participle	spiritualizing
Past simple	spiritualized
Past participle	spiritualized

regular · Lesson

I, you, we, they	spiritualize
he, she, it	spiritualizes

all persons

spiritualized

I, you, we, they	have spiritualized
he, she, it	has spiritualized

all persons

will spiritualize

3 synonyms

Close in meaning

purify from the corrupting influences of the world:spiritualise
give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense:spiritualise
elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration:transfigure glorify

1 antonyms

5 related words

3 lessons