spiritualize

Meanings

1. To make spiritual; to invoke spirituality.
2. To refine intellectually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to.
3. To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; opposed to literalize.
4. To extract spirit.
5. To convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.

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.