| 释义 |
unˈspiritualize, v.
[un-2 6 c.]
trans. To divest of spiritual qualities.
a1716South Serm. (1727) VI. 243 Enjoyments..such as..will by Degrees certainly indispose, and unspiritualize the Mind. 1846Hawthorne Old Manse ii. 115 Those evil habits..which unspiritualize man's nature. 1851Ruskin Mod. Paint. II. iii. ii. v. §17, I recollect no single instance of a naked angel that does not look..unspiritualized. 1881H. Drummond Ideal Life (1897) 133 God would never unspiritualise three-fourths of man's active life by work, if work were work, and nothing more. |