Definition of "spiritualize" [spir•it•u•al•ize]

• To impart a spiritual nature to. (verb-transitive)
• To invest with or treat as having a spiritual sense or meaning. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "You simply can't think your way out of it, or "spiritualize" your way our of it."
• "The convenient thing in the traditional Christian Tradition is their distance from their revelations, they can try and "spiritualize" things like the flood or the miracles."
• "How does Hope "spiritualize" the earth, i.e., make it purer?"