| Spiritualize 1. (v. t.) To refine intellectually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. 2. (v. t.) To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; -- opposed to literalize. 3. (v. t.) To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. Thesaurus Entries attenuate, bolt, clarify, clear, decrassify, dematerialize, depurate, disembody, disincarnate, distill, edulcorate, elute, enervate, essentialize, etherealize, extract, filter, filtrate, idealize, immaterialize, insubstantialize, leach, lixiviate, percolate, purify, rarefy, rectify, refine, sap, screen, separate, sieve, sift, spiritize, strain, sublimate, sublime, subtilize, try, unsubstantialize, weaken, winnow |