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单词 spiritualizer
释义

spiritualizern.

Brit. /ˈspɪrᵻtʃᵿlʌɪzə/, /ˈspɪrᵻtʃl̩ʌɪzə/, /ˈspɪrᵻtjᵿlʌɪzə/, U.S. /ˈspɪrᵻtʃ(əw)əˌlaɪzər/
Forms: see spiritualize v. and -er suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: spiritualize v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < spiritualize v. + -er suffix1.
1. A person who espouses spiritual ideas or beliefs or who regards things from a spiritual point of view; esp. a person who seeks or proposes spiritual or mystical meanings. Cf. spiritualist n. 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > text > criticism, interpretation > [noun] > mystical > person
spiritualizer1698
mysticist1860
phantomizer1860
1698 tr. L.-A. de Noailles et al. in tr. F. de S. de la Mothe-Fénelon Maxims of Saints 202 Altho' the said Book doth..make an enumeration of false spirituallizers [L. falsorum spiritualium], (If I may so call them).
1744 J. Parsons Christians influenced by Recompence of Reward 17 Some Refiners in Religion, and Spiritualizers upon the spiritual Gospel of Jesus Christ, imagine it dangerous for Christians to indulge a quickening Hope and Expectation of the promised Reward.
a1779 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses (new ed.) ix. ii, in Wks. (1788) IV. 134 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.
1828 E. Irving Last Days 362 O ye niggard spiritualizers of God's universal promise!
1842 G. S. Faber Provinc. Lett. (1844) II. 35 A thorough-going spiritualiser will tell you the covert meaning of every dish and spoon in Solomon's temple.
1942 Jrnl. Relig. 22 189 The rabbis became the active spiritualizers of cult concepts and elaborated a theory of substitutes for the traditional sacrifices.
1996 Newsweek (U.S. ed.) (Nexis) 8 Apr. (Society section) 60 Time and again in contention with neoPlatonists, Gnostics and other spiritualizers, advocates of the more physical interpretation win out over the more vaporous explanations.
2. A thing which brings spiritual benefit or insight. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] > spirituality or being incorporeal > spiritualization > spiritualizing agency or quality
spiritualizer1822
1822 W. Whewell Let. 1 Jan. in J. M. Douglas Life & Corr. W. Whewell (1881) ii. 73 It [sc. elegant literature]..is something of the same kind of consoler and spiritualiser in small matters that religion is in great ones.
1867 H. Bushnell Moral Uses Dark Things 21 Sleep is a spiritualizer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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