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spiritualize, v.|ˈspɪrɪtjuːəlaɪz|
[f. spiritual a. + -ize, or ad. F. spiritualiser (16th c.). Cf. It. spiritualizzare, Sp. and Pg. espiritualizar.]
1. trans. To render spiritual; to invest with a spiritual character; to raise or change to a spiritual (or more spiritual) condition.
Freq. in the 17th c.
1631R. H. Arraignm. Whole Creature xiii. §i. 173 The Soules food, if I may so say, is spiritualized to the sustentation of the spirit. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ii. 57 Christ more spirituallized their Joy, rather to rejoyce that their Names were written in Heaven. 1696Stanhope Chr. Pattern (1711) 81 This man is as it were spiritualized, can have recourse to God without distraction. 1801B. Maxwell Let. in Mem. B. Ewing (1829) 37 That any thing I should write should be helpful in spiritualising another. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal II. xii. 279 Illness and solitude had done much to exalt and spiritualize Angus Hamleigh's mind.
b. To convert into, invest with, a spiritual sense or meaning; to expound or understand in a spiritual sense; to explain away in this manner. Also absol.
1645Calamy Indict. agst. Eng. 26 Oh that God would give us hearts to spiritualize these stories! 1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. i. v. 115 Beasts inhabit and enjoy the world: man, if he will do more, must study, and (if I may so speak) spiritualize it. 1696C. Leslie Snake in Grass 166 They have Spiritualiz'd away all the Letter of the Scripture, the Sacraments, and Christ's Humanity. 1734Watts Relig. Juv. (1789) 221 Must we spiritualize the affairs of larks, and worms, and squirrels, and learn religion from all the trifles in nature? 1798Graves Charac. Apos. 126 Nothing is attributed to natural causes; every thing is spiritualized and magnified. 1833Fraser's Mag. VIII. 47 There is an increasing tendency to spiritualise away the pains of what is technically called Hell. 1845Kitto Cycl. Bibl. Lit. s.v. Commentary, Pious reflections, and multitudinous inferences enter largely into our popular books of exposition. They Spiritualise, but they do not expound.
c. To render spiritual in appearance; to refine in a high degree.
1889J. J. Hissey Tour in Phaeton 101 The softened light spiritualises the landscape. 1898Watts-Dunton Aylwin iii. vi, Sinfi's noble features, illumined and spiritualized by a light that seemed more than earthly.
†2. To invest with full spiritual or ecclesiastical status or rights. Obs.—1
1641Termes de la Ley 126 If Chappels founded by Lay men were not approved of by the Diocesan, and as they terme it, spiritualized, they are not accounted Benefices.
3.
†a. To change, convert into, or reduce to spirit; to render volatile or spirituous. Obs.
1644Digby Nat. Bodies xxvi. 238 This motion of the hart driueth the bloud (which is warmed and spiritualised, by being boyled in this furnace) through due passages into the arteries. 1694Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 347/2 From what has been said it appears, first, that the Gold ought to be spiritualized or subtilized. 1721Bailey, Spiritualize (in Chymistry) is to reduce a compact mixt Body into the Principle call'd Spirit. 1741Phil. Trans. LV. 242 It seems fitted,..by its expansive quality, to rarify and as it were spiritualize the blood.
b. To invest with the immaterial qualities or nature of a spirit.
1659H. More Immort. Soul (1662) 154 This body is far more active then ours, being more spiritualized, that is to say, having greater degrees of motion communicated unto it. 1818Keats Endym. iv. 993 Then 'twas fit that from this mortal state Thou shouldst, my love, by some unlook'd for change Be spiritualis'd.
†4. absol. To inform with spirit. Obs.—1
1713Derham Phys.-Theol. 4 A Mass of Air, of subtile penetrating Matter, fit..to excite, animate, and spiritualize; and in short, to be the very Soul of this lower World.
Hence ˈspiritualizing ppl. a.
1845Kitto Cycl. Bibl. Lit. s.v. Commentary, A preaching, spiritualising commentary does not deserve the appellation of commentary at all. 1853De Quincey Autob. Sk. Wks. I. 27 That softening and spiritualising haze which belongs..to the action of dreams. 1899W. R. Inge Chr. Myst. viii. 317 The spiritualising power of human love. |