At midnight few scenes could be more calm and beautiful, so tenderly did the light of the moon soften and etherealize everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Sombre Rivals] Reference

Study Perugino and Raphael, see how they raise human nature and etherealize it till we see the divinity of soul in the faces of their saints and martyrs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fra Bartolommeo] Reference

It was a bright, cheerful apartment, giving upon the laurels of the rocky hillside, and permeated, like the rest of the house, with the wholesome spice of the valley -- an odor that, in its pure desiccating property, seemed to obliterate all flavor of alien human habitation, and even to dominate and etherealize the appetizing smell of the viands before them.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Phyllis of the Sierras] Reference

A question which has stirred the heart of mankind to its foundations -- can Women etherealize society?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844] Reference

"We need not agree with a certain modern school who would empty all poetry of poetical thought and etherealize it till it melts into a strain of music; who sing to us we hardly know of what, but in such a way that the echoes of the real world, its men and women, its actual stir and conflict, are faint and hardly to be discerned.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Poetry] Reference

Idea etherealize and fly away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Imperialist] Reference