spiritualize

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make spiritual; to invoke spirituality.
  2. To refine intellectually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to.
    — 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.
  3. To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; opposed to literalize.
  4. To extract spirit. obsolete
  5. To convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. obsolete

词形变化

spiritualizes present,singular,third-person spiritualizing participle,present spiritualized participle,past spiritualized past spiritualise alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
despiritualize respiritualize spiritualizer unspiritualize

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys-der.?
Latin spīrō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin spīritus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Late Latin spīrituālisder.
Old French spirituelbor.
Middle English spiritual
English spiritual
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English spiritualize
From spiritual + -ize.
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