spiritualize

Meaning

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. (obsolete) To extract spirit.
5. (obsolete) To convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.

Synonyms

spiritualise

transfigure

glorify

intensify

lighten up

disincarnate

clarify

render spiritual

clear

disembody

Translations

spiritualizzare

espiritualitzar

verklären

πνευματοποιώ

glorifier

vergeestelijken

espiritualizar

glorificar

transfigurar

يجعل روحيًّا

ruhanileştirmek

vergeistigen

Etymology

From spiritual + -ize.