Definition of Spiritize

1. Verb. Imbue with a spirit.

Exact synonyms: Spiritise
Generic synonyms: Diffuse, Imbue, Interpenetrate, Penetrate, Permeate, Pervade, Riddle
Derivative terms: Spirit, Spirit, Spirit, Spirit

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spiritize

spirited
spirited away
spiritedly
spiritedness
spiritednesses
spiritful
spiriting
spiriting away
spiritings
spiritise
spiritism
spiritisms
spiritist
spiritistic
spiritists
spiritize (current term)
spiritless
spiritlessly
spiritlessness
spiritlike
spiritoso
spiritous
spiritousness
spirits
spirits away
spirits of ammonia
spirits of hartshorn
spirits of salt
spirits of salts
spirits of wine

Literary usage of Spiritize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The World's Parliament of Religions: An Illustrated and Popular Story of the by John Henry Barrows (1893)
"To spiritize a stone, a block of wood, one must first have believed in a spirit; to have there imprisoned a god, one must have beforehand believed in ..."

2. The World's Parliament of Religions: An Illustrated and Popular Story of the by John Henry Barrows (1893)
"To spiritize a stone, a block of wood, one must first have believed in a spirit; to have there imprisoned a god, one must have beforehand believed in a ..."

3. Ways of Nature by John Burroughs (1905)
"The tendency to sentimentalize nature has, in our time, largely taken the place of the old tendency to demonize and spiritize it. It is anthropomorphism in ..."

4. Seers of the Ages: Embracing Spiritualism Past and Present, Doctrines Stated by James Martin Peebles (1903)
"... magnetize, or spiritize susceptible persons in the body; that they ever exert psychologic influences over them to render them media; that they ever ..."

5. An Exposition of Views Respecting the Principal Facts, Causes, and by Adin Ballou (1852)
"... he now obstinately denies that departed spirits ever mesmerize, magnetize, or spiritize susceptible persons in the body; that they ever exert ..."

6. An Exposition of Views Respecting the Principal Facts, Causes and by Adin Ballou (1853)
"... he now obstinately denies that departed spirits ever mesmerize, magnetize, or spiritize susceptible persons in the body; that they ever exert ..."

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