单词 | spiritize |
释义 | spiritizev. rare. transitive. To imbue with spirit or with a spirit (in various senses of spirit n.). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > spirituality > mind, soul, spirit, heart > [verb (transitive)] > endow with a soul soulOE spiritize1654 soulify1662 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. vii. 111 The nimble Mercurie..hath so spiritiz'd their whole Oeconomie, that they are Quick-silver to the fingers ends. 1852 A. Ballou Expos. Spirit Manifestations vii. 84 He now obstinately denies that departed spirits ever mesmerize, magnetize, or spiritize susceptible persons in the body. 1893 C. D. D'Harlez in J. H. Barrows World's Parl. Relig. I. 617 To spiritize a stone, a block of wood, one must first have believed in a spirit. 1955 Philos. Sci. 22 298 The Ego which Husserl has returned to the world is a spook! And it succeed only in spiritizing anything to which it is attached. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1654 |
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