Spiritualize

Word SPIRITUALIZE
Character 12
Hyphenation spir it u al ize
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Spiritualize"

What do we mean by spiritualize?

To impart a spiritual nature to. transitive verb

To invest with or treat as having a spiritual sense or meaning. transitive verb

To make spiritual, or more spiritual; elevate above what is worldly or bodily.

To infuse spirituality or life into; inform with spirit or life; animate.

To draw a spiritual meaning from, or impart a spiritual meaning to; as, to spiritualize a text of Scripture.

In chem.:

To extract spirit from.

To convert into spirit, or impart the properties of spirit to. Also spelled spiritualise.

To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to. transitive verb

To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; -- opposed to literalize. transitive verb

To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. transitive verb

To make spiritual; to invoke spirituality. verb

To refine intellectually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to. verb

To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; opposed to literalize. verb

To extract spirit. verb

To convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. verb

Give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense verb

Elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration verb

Purify from the corrupting influences of the world verb

To make spiritual; to invoke spirituality.

To refine intellectually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to.

To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; opposed to literalize.

To extract spirit.

To convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Spiritualize

The word "spiritualize" in example sentences

You simply can't think your way out of it, or "spiritualize" your way our of it. ❋ Steven Barnes (2010)

The convenient thing in the traditional Christian Tradition is their distance from their revelations, they can try and "spiritualize" things like the flood or the miracles. ❋ Unknown (2009)

How does Hope "spiritualize" the earth, i.e., make it purer? ❋ Christine M. Keck (N/A)

“The function of the state is to enlighten, to develop, to increase, to fortify, to spiritualize, and to sanctify the soul of a nation.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

They might spiritualize the prophesy and say that something spiritual happened that can't be seen, but nevertheless the prophecy was fulfilled," says Catherine Wessinger, a professor of religious studies at Loyola University New Orleans, who has written about apocalyptic movements." ❋ Unknown (2011)

They hyper-spiritualize everything, and this story of Mary and Martha is one of the classic ones that she meditates on a lot. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The distinctive human problem from time immemorial has been the need to spiritualize human life, to lift it onto a special immortal plane, beyond the cycles of life and death that characterize all other organisms. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Pacioli believed that stereotomy, the careful 'geometrizing' of stone through cutting and polishing, could transmute and spiritualize lowly matter, evoking St. John's Heavenly Jersualem made of 'pure gold resembling pure glass.'" ❋ Unknown (2008)

One place to begin is a closer examination of the root experiences which have typically led philosophers and theologians to spiritualize the universe. ❋ William Harryman (2009)

If we must spiritualize all of existence, labeling it God adds nothing at best, and plays frivolously with a word deeply resonant to the great majority of theists. ❋ William Harryman (2009)

Whether staring at the limitless horizon evoked in a Chinese landscape painting or appreciating Hasidic parables: It is not difficult to appreciate the tendency to spiritualize the totality of things. ❋ William Harryman (2009)

In other words, philosophies like pantheism and panentheism are perceived as the means by which the more thoughtful citizens of late modernity can safely re-spiritualize or “re-enchant,” to borrow a phrase from one of the more able defenders of process theology their worldview without commitment to the delusions of dogmatic and literalistic belief.17 ❋ William Harryman (2009)

Married people can of course spiritualize their daily life, but it is a more difficult path, given all the concerns associated with having a marriage. ❋ Suzanne (2009)

As you spiritualize the way you make money, your finances heal. ❋ Michelle Karén (2008)

As we spiritualize ordinary activities, our consciousness expands. ❋ Michelle Karén (2008)

Meditation, yoga, and contemplative practices spiritualize our daily lives, helping us approach practical issues in a whole new light. ❋ Michelle Karén (2008)

Now what on earth does that mean, especially if one does not spiritualize it away, as Matthew immediately did, into "poor in spirit" -- that is, spiritually humble or religiously obediant? ❋ Steve Caldwell (2008)

Suhrawardi appears to spiritualize Avicenna's Peripatetic epistemology with a greatly Platonic reading, now that the access to the ultimate reality is guaranteed through divine photic illumination. ❋ Marcotte, Roxanne (2007)

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