Associations to the word «Spiritualize»

Wiktionary

SPIRITUALIZE, verb. To make spiritual; to invoke spirituality.
SPIRITUALIZE, verb. To refine intellectually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to.
SPIRITUALIZE, verb. To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; opposed to literalize.
SPIRITUALIZE, verb. (chemistry) (obsolete) To extract spirit.
SPIRITUALIZE, verb. (chemistry) (obsolete) To convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.

Dictionary definition

SPIRITUALIZE, verb. Give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense.
SPIRITUALIZE, verb. Elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration.
SPIRITUALIZE, verb. Purify from the corrupting influences of the world; "During his stay at the ashram he was spiritualized".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats