spiritualize

English

Alternative forms

spiritualise

Etymology

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.

Verb

spiritualize (third-person singular simple present spiritualizes, present participle spiritualizing, simple past and past participle spiritualized)

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.
- 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
  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.
(chemistry, obsolete) To extract spirit.
(chemistry, obsolete) To convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.

Derived terms

Translations

to make spiritual

to refine intellectually or morally

Finnish: henkistää
Portuguese: espiritualizar

to give spiritual meaning to

Finnish: henkistää, hengellistää
Portuguese: espiritualizar

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Spanish: ^{(please verify)} espiritualizar (es)