v. [f. as prec. + -IZE.] trans. a. To render transcendent. b. To render transcendental; to idealize. Hence Transcendentalized ppl. a.

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1846.  Mozley, Ess. (1878), I. 233. The magnanimity, generosity, ardour, and refinement of ordinary virtue were transcendentalised in him.

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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.

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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!

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1881.  Contemp. Rev., March, 380. Some transcendentalized form of tolerance.

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1883.  Century Mag., XXIX. 200/2. The Venetian gondola, refined, transcendentalized.

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