What is "spiritualizing"

Spiritualize \Spir"it*u*al*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spiritualized; p. pr. & vb. n. Spiritualizing.] [Cf. F. spiritualiser.]

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

   This seen in the clear air, and the whole spiritualized by endless recollections, fills the eye and the heart more forcibly than I can find words to say.
   --Carlyle.

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

3. (Old Chem.) To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.

vb. (present participle of spiritualize English)