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transcendentalize, v.|trɑːnsɛnˈdɛntəlaɪz, træn-| [f. as prec. + -ize.] trans. a. To render transcendent. b. To render transcendental; to idealize. Hence transcenˈdentalized ppl. a.
1846Mozley Ess. (1878) I. 233 The magnanimity, generosity, ardour, and refinement of ordinary virtue were transcendentalised in him. 1866Liddon Bampt. Lect. viii. (1875) 450 Nor is it to transcendentalize Him into an abstraction which mocks us when we attempt to grasp it as an unsubstantial phantom. 1875Contemp. Rev. Nov. 996 How often even they are found seeking to transcendentalize their own religion, to escape from its old dogmas, and efface its ancient discipline! 1881Contemp. Rev. Mar. 380 Some transcendentalized form of tolerance. 1883Century Mag. XXIX. 200/2 The Venetian gondola, refined, transcendentalized.
Add: ˌtranscendentaliˈzation n.
1956J. Needham Sci. & Civilisation in China II. xviii. 580 Some think..that Shang-Ti was a transcendentalisation of the function of the Emperor or bronze-age High King. 1983Crux (Vancouver) June 8/2 The theological withdrawal from the reality of this world..has taken place in two forms, a) as internalization of God, and b) as transcendentalization of God. |