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noun
The process of making something chemical, or adapting it to use chemical methods.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Inner conflict caused by one's initial resistance to spiritual awakening.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Qualifier: spirituality
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History
From chemical + -ization. The spiritual sense was used by Mary Baker Eddy (then known as Mary Baker Glover) as early as 1875, in the first edition of Science and Health: “This chemicalization, or change, often follows our explanations of science, the effect of which is that the patient recovers; disease comes to the surface during the chemicalization, like a fermenting fluid, and throws itself off, sometimes in violent perspiration, eruptions, increased secretions, and discharges." p.176. More recent use, with definition: 1906 (current) edition of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: "By chemicalization I mean the process which mortal mind and body undergo in the change of belief from a material to a spiritual basis." p 168. In the spirituality sense, recently further popularised by Catherine Ponder.
