spiritualize

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Scrabble points: 23
Words With Friends: 26
Letters: 12

Definition of spiritualize

5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

To make spiritual; to invoke spirituality.

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verb

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.

“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.”
To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; opposed to literalize.
(obsolete)To extract spirit.
(obsolete)To convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys-der.? Latin spīrō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin spīritus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin spīrituālisder. Old French spirituelbor. Middle English spiritual English spiritual Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English spiritualize From spiritual + -ize.

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