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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King