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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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4 words match “SPIRITUALIZE”

SPIRITUALIZE v. 3 definitions
e corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. This seen in the clear air, and the whole spiritualized by endless recollections, fills the eye and the heart more forcibly than I can find words to say. Carlyle.
SPIRITUALIZER n.
One who spiritualizes.
LITERALIZE v.
interpret or put in practice according to the strict meaning of the words; -- opposed to spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture.
SPIRITUALIZATION n.
The act of spiritualizing, or the state of being spiritualized.