spiritualize

IPA: spˈɪrɪtʃwʌɫaɪz

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.
(chemistry, obsolete) To extract spirit.
(chemistry, obsolete) To convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.

Examples of "spiritualize" in Sentences

How does Hope "spiritualize" the earth, i.e., make it purer?
You simply can't think your way out of it, or "spiritualize" your way our of it.
They hyper-spiritualize everything, and this story of Mary and Martha is one of the classic ones that she meditates on a lot.
“The function of the state is to enlighten, to develop, to increase, to fortify, to spiritualize, and to sanctify the soul of a nation.”
One place to begin is a closer examination of the root experiences which have typically led philosophers and theologians to spiritualize the universe.
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.
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.
"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.'"
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."