unsensualize

English

Etymology

un- +‎ sensualize

Verb

unsensualize (third-person singular simple present unsensualizes, present participle unsensualizing, simple past and past participle unsensualized)

1. (transitive) To elevate from the domain of the senses; to purify.
   • March 25, 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Watchman

     Hence the soft couch, and many-colour'd robe,
     The timbrel and arch'd dome and costly feast,
     With all th' inventive arts that nurse the soul
     To forms of beauty; and by sensual wants
     Unsensualize the mind, which in the Means
     Learns to forget the grossness of the End,
     Best pleasur'd with its own activity.