spiritualize verb5 •To make spiritual; to invoke spirituality. •To refine intellectually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to.This seen in the clear air, and the whole spiritualized by endless recollections, fills the eye and the heart more forcibly than I can find words to say. — 1851 •To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; opposed to literalize. •(no longer used) To extract spirit. •(no longer used) To convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. formsspiritualized · spiritualizing · spiritualizes · spiritualizeth