spiritualize

To impart a spiritual nature to.

To invest with or treat as having a spiritual sense or meaning.

To make spiritual, or more spiritual; elevate above what is worldly or bodily.

To infuse spirituality or life into; inform with spirit or life; animate.

To draw a spiritual meaning from, or impart a spiritual meaning to; as, to spiritualize a text of Scripture.

In chem.:

To extract spirit from.

To convert into spirit, or impart the properties of spirit to. Also spelled spiritualise.

To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to.

To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; — opposed to literalize.