Spiritualize /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Spiritualized; p. pr. & vb. n. Spiritualizing

1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the 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.

2. To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; -- opposed to literalize.
3. To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (Old Chem.)