What is "etherealized"

Usage examples of "etherealized".

I am sure my fancy raised up something round that blue-eyed mite of a child, which etherealized, and made a very angel of her.

Spenlow's proctorial gown and stiff cravat took Peggotty down a little, and inspired her with a greater reverence for the man who was gradually becoming more and more etherealized in my eyes every day, and about whom a reflected radiance seemed to me to beam when he sat erect in Court among his papers, like a little lighthouse in a sea of stationery.

In moving up the scale of animal behavior we find that modification of behavior goes through the stages of (i) conditioning by circumstance, (z) conditioning after trial-and-error, and (3) conditioning after an etherealized trial-and-error.

Similarly, when the process of etherealized trial-and-error becomes as complicated as it is in the human mind, it may well be DO longer useful to attempt to interpret mental activity in behaviorist terms.

The harmony is such that man is even said to live, in a much etherealized condition, for 100,000 years.

There were others, again, true saintly fathers, whose faculties had been elaborated by weary toil among their books, and by patient thought, and etherealized, moreover, by spiritual communications with the better world, into which their purity of life had almost introduced these holy personages, with their garments of mortality still clinging to them.

So etherealized by spirit as he was, and so apotheosized by worshipping admirers, did his footsteps, in the procession, really tread upon the dust of earth?

His descendant, in compliance with the requirements of a nicer age, had etherealized this rude benevolence into that broad benignity of smile, wherewith he shone like a noonday sun along the streets, or glowed like a household fire in the drawing-rooms of his private acquaintance.

While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining at every step an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something long ago tried and abandoned, but which we now find etherealized, refined, and perfect to its ideal.