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spiritualizer|ˈspɪrɪtjuːəlaɪzə(r)|
[f. spiritualize v.]
1. One who gives a spiritual sense to a Scriptural statement, etc.; one who interprets spiritually.
1698tr. Abp. Fenelon's Maxims Saints 202 Altho' the said Book doth..make an enumeration of false spiritualizers. a1779Warburton Div. Legat. ix. ii. Wks. 1788 III. 655 The Socinians, who boast to have interpreted Scripture on the severest and justest Laws of Logic and Criticism, have, in this instance,..deviated more from these Laws than the most licentious of the Allegorists, or the wildest of the Spiritualizers. 1828E. Irving Last Days 362 O ye niggard spiritualizers of God's universal promise! 1842Faber Prov. Lett. (1844) II. 35 A thorough-going spiritualiser will tell you the covert meaning of every dish and spoon in Solomon's temple.
2. A spiritualizing agency or quality.
1822Whewell in S. Douglas Life (1881) 73 It..is something of the same kind of consoler and spiritualiser in small matters that religion is in great ones. 1867H. Bushnell Mor. Uses Dark Th. 21 Sleep is a spiritualizer. |