v. rare. [SPIRIT sb. + -IZE.] trans. To imbue with spirit or spiritual power.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, III. vii. 111. The nimble Mercurie … hath so spiritiz’d their whole Oeconomie, that they are Quick-silver to their finger ends.
1893. J. H. Barrows, World’s Parlt. Relig., I. 617. To spiritize a stone, a block of wood, one must first have believed in a spirit.
