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spiritualization|ˌspɪrɪtjuːəlaɪˈzeɪʃən|
[f. next + -ation. Cf. F. spiritualisation, Sp. espiritualizacion.]
The action of the verb spiritualize.
1. The action of changing into spirit; conversion or transformation of a corporeal or material substance into a spiritual condition.
1665Needham Med. Medicinæ 285 The Fifth Concoction is in the Arteries, where its [the blood's] Spiritualisation and vitality is perfected. 1674Blount Glossogr. (ed. 4), Spiritualization, is the changing the whole body into spirit; a Chymical term. 1824Monthly Mag. LVIII. 38 That spiritualization..which must take place previous to the admission of any bodies into that region of spirits. 1891[F. C. S. Schiller] Riddles Sphinx 397 Matter also undergoes a process of spiritualization.
transf.1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. iv. 104 That spiritualisation of fun, frolic, and mischief—immortal Puck.
2. The action of spiritualizing or making spiritual; the state of being spiritualized.
1809Crit. Rev. Ser. iii. XVI. 464 This spiritualization of the old faith. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. I. i. §29 The history of Gothic architecture is the history of the refinement and spiritualisation of Northern work under its influence. 1879Farrar St. Paul I. 144 Nor had they seen that His fulfilment of the Law had consisted in its spiritualisation.
b. Interpretation in a spiritual sense.
1820Southey Wesley I. 204 Madness never gave birth to combinations of more..blasphemous obscenity, than they did in their fantastic allegories and spiritualizations. |