supernaturalize
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From supernatural + -ize.
Verb
[edit]supernaturalize (third-person singular simple present supernaturalizes, present participle supernaturalizing, simple past and past participle supernaturalized)
- (transitive) To make supernatural; to place a supernatural interpretation upon.
- 1910, William Owen Carver, Missions and modern thought:
- The deepest impulse of philosophy is the naturalizing of the supernatural, and the highest function of religion is supernaturalizing the natural.