v. [f. as prec. + -IZE.] trans. a. To render transcendent. b. To render transcendental; to idealize. Hence Transcendentalized ppl. a.
1846. Mozley, Ess. (1878), I. 233. The magnanimity, generosity, ardour, and refinement of ordinary virtue were transcendentalised in him.
1866. Liddon, Bampt. Lect., viii. (1875), 450. Nor is it to transcendentalize Him into an abstraction which mocks us when we attempt to grasp it as an unsubstantial phantom.
1875. Contemp. Rev., Nov., 996. How often even they are found seeking to transcendentalize their own religion, to escape from its old dogmas, and efface its ancient discipline!
1881. Contemp. Rev., March, 380. Some transcendentalized form of tolerance.
1883. Century Mag., XXIX. 200/2. The Venetian gondola, refined, transcendentalized.