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Meanings of spiritualize in English

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transfigurar

Elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration.

        transfigurar
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        espiritualitzar

        Give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense.

            espiritualitzar
            Usage of spiritualize in English
            1
            They spiritualize this, and create an Asura unknown to other nations.
            The Religions of India / Handbooks on the History of Religions, ...
            2
            The tendency of Christianity is to spiritualize thought and action.
            Unity of Good
            3
            Scholastic theology requires that we negate or spiritualize countless Scriptures, rejecting the plain meaning.
            Heaven
            4
            They give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel!
            The House of the Seven Gables
            5
            To spiritualize one's age,-thatis something worth doing.
            The picture of Dorian Gray (First printing version)
            6
            Hawthorne would try to spiritualize a guilty conscience.
            Essays Before a Sonata
            7
            How does Hope "spiritualize" the earth, i.e., make it purer?
            The Elson Readers, Book 5
            8
            His tendency was to spiritualize as much as possible all the devotions in use in the Church.
            Life of Father Hecker
            9
            The Shazlis were Sufis, or mystics, esoterics of El Islam, who tried to spiritualize its material portions.
            The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton: The Story of Her Life. Volume...
            10
            I screamed at him, 'But you must spiritualize-don'tyou understand?-spiritualizethe discontent.'...
            Under Western Eyes
            11
            The Sun of Truth hath risen to illumine the whole earth, and to spiritualize the community of man.
            Selections from the Writings of `Abdu'l-Bahá
            12
            We cannot spiritualize the body away.
            Men, Women, and God / A Discussion of Sex Questions from the Chr...
            13
            Broaden and spiritualize your thoughts.
            The New Revelation
            14
            And we must spiritualize everything.
            Tragic Sense Of Life
            15
            Yes, I said spiritualize!
            Under Western Eyes
            16
            To fix the volatile, in the Hermetic language, means to materialize the spirit; to volatilize the fixed is to spiritualize matter.
            Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fr...
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            Spiritualize through the time