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spiritize

spiritize verb: to imbue with a spirit or soul.

Verb

spiritize (third-person singular simple present spiritizes, present participle spiritizing, simple past and past participle spiritized)

  1. (transitive) To imbue with a spirit or soul.
    • 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 divinity.1893, John Henry Barrows, The World's Parliament of Religions, page 617

Forms of spiritize

third-person singular presentspiritizes
present participlespiritizing
past participlespiritized
pastspiritized

Origin of spiritize

From spirit + -ize.

Questions about spiritize

What does spiritize mean?
Spiritize means to imbue with a spirit or soul.
What part of speech is spiritize?
Spiritize is a verb.
What is the past tense of spiritize?
The past tense of spiritize is spiritized.

Words near spiritize in the dictionary

  1. spiritist
  2. spiritistic
  3. spiritists
  4. spiritization
  5. spiritizations
  6. spiritize
  7. spiritized
  8. spiritizes
  9. spiritizing
  10. spiritlamp
  11. spiritland

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