Spiritualize

·vt To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.

II. Spiritualize ·vt To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense;

— opposed to literalize.

III. Spiritualize ·vt 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.