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etherealize, etherialize, v.|iːˈθɪərɪəlaɪz|
Also æther-.
[f. ethereal (or -ial) + -ize.]
trans. To make or render ethereal: a. To refine, exalt, or spiritualize, by removing all that is material or corporeal; also absol. b. To bring out the spirit or spiritual conception of. c. To give an ethereal appearance to.
1829Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXV. 389 Every breath of air we draw is terrestrialized or etherealized by imagination. 1833Lytton England iv. ii. (1840) 435 Wordsworth's poetry is of all existing in the world the most calculated to refine, to etherealise, to exalt. 1850Hawthorne Scarlet L. xxiii. (1879) 283 So etherealized by spirit as he was. 1852― Blithedale Rom. viii. (1885) 78 The clods of the earth..were never etherealized into thought. 1856Chamb. Jrnl. VI. 263 All silvered over and etherealised by moonlight. 1876Gladstone Synchr. Homer. 192 Difficult..to accept as history, or to etherialize and translate as myth. 1879Geo. Eliot Coll. Breakf. P. 796 Art's creations..etherialized To least admixture of the grosser fact. 1882A. Austin Canons Poet. Crit. ii. 41 If ever Thought was etherialized..it is in the foregoing passage. |