spiritize

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verb

To imbue with a spirit or soul.

Similar
spiritise
OriginEnglish spirit ← Middle English spirit ← Old French espirit →
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Meanings

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

present singular third person spiritizes · participle present spiritizing · participle past spiritized · past spiritized

  1. transitiveTo 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

Synonyms & antonyms

verbimbue with a spirit

Similar
spiritise
Broader
permeatepervadepenetrate

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)peys-der.?
  2. Latinspīrō
  3. Latinspīritu
  4. Old Frenchespirit
  5. Middle Englishspirit
  6. Englishspirit
  7. Englishspiritize

From spirit + -ize.

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Cite this entry
APA

spiritize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spiritize

MLA

“spiritize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spiritize. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spiritize,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spiritize.

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