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Spiritualize

verb
(past & past part. spiritualized; pres. part. spiritualizing)
1.
Give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense.  Synonym: spiritualise.
2.
Elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration.  Synonyms: glorify, transfigure.
3.
Purify from the corrupting influences of the world.  Synonym: spiritualise.






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"Spiritualize" Quotes from Famous Books



... Him, whose every thought is born of Beauty, Truth and Love. I envy not the one who looks with a cold and indifferent spirit on these immortal creations of the old masters—these poems written in marble and on the canvass. They who oppose every thing which can refine and spiritualize the nature of man, by binding him down to the cares of the work-day world alone, cheat ...
— Views a-foot • J. Bayard Taylor

... creators, that is, poets. And we sacredly guard their creations among our best treasures of human gift, because they are so spiritually alive that whenever we put ourselves in relation with them they animate us, they spiritualize our thoughts; and this they do because the minds whence they issued were radiant centers of ideal power, that is, power to conceive ...
— Essays AEsthetical • George Calvert

... a mysterious way, he would confess that he once thought differently. In his idle and dreamy days he had considered it possible, in a certain sense, to spiritualize machinery, and to combine with the new species of life and motion thus produced a beauty that should attain to the ideal which Nature has proposed to herself in all her creatures, but has never ...
— Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... is to spiritualize thought and action. The demonstrations of Jesus annulled the claims of matter, and overruled laws material as emphatically as they ...
— Unity of Good • Mary Baker Eddy

... to spiritualize thought and action. The demonstrations of Jesus annulled the claims of matter, and overruled laws material as ...
— Unity of Good • Mary Baker Eddy



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