| Spirit |
n. |
Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself. |
| Spirit |
n. |
A rough breathing; an aspirate, as the letter h; also, a mark to denote aspiration; a breathing. |
| Spirit |
n. |
Life, or living substance, considered independently of corporeal existence; an intelligence conceived of apart from any physical organization or embodiment; vital essence, force, or energy, as distinct from matter. |
| Spirit |
n. |
The intelligent, immaterial and immortal part of man; the soul, in distinction from the body in which it resides; the agent or subject of vital and spiritual functions, whether spiritual or material. |
| Spirit |
n. |
Specifically, a disembodied soul; the human soul after it has left the body. |
| Spirit |
n. |
Any supernatural being, good or bad; an apparition; a specter; a ghost; also, sometimes, a sprite,; a fairy; an elf. |
| Spirit |
n. |
Energy, vivacity, ardor, enthusiasm, courage, etc. |
| Spirit |
n. |
One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper; as, a ruling spirit; a schismatic spirit. |
| Spirit |
n. |
Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state;
often in the plural; as, to be cheerful, or in good spirits; to be downhearted, or in bad spirits. |
| Spirit |
n. |
Intent; real meaning;
opposed to the letter, or to formal statement; also, characteristic quality, especially such as is derived from the individual genius or the personal character; as, the spirit of an enterprise, of a document, or the like. |
| Spirit |
n. |
Tenuous, volatile, airy, or vapory substance, possessed of active qualities. |
| Spirit |
n. |
Any liquid produced by distillation; especially, alcohol, the spirits, or spirit, of wine (it having been first distilled from wine):
often in the plural. |
| Spirit |
n. |
Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors. |
| Spirit |
n. |
A solution in alcohol of a volatile principle. Cf. Tincture. |
| Spirit |
n. |
Any one of the four substances, sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, or arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment). |
| Spirit |
n. |
Stannic chloride. See under Stannic. |
| Spirit |
v. t. |
To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; as, civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men;
sometimes followed by up. |
| Spirit |
v. t. |
To convey rapidly and secretly, or mysteriously, as if by the agency of a spirit; to kidnap;
often with away, or off. |
| Spiritally |
adv. |
By means of the breath. |
| Spirited |
imp. & p. p. |
of Spirit |
| Spirited |
a. |
Animated or possessed by a spirit. |
| Spirited |
a. |
Animated; full of life or vigor; lively; full of spirit or fire; as, a spirited oration; a spirited answer. |
| Spiritful |
a. |
Full of spirit; spirited. |
| Spiritielle |
a. |
Of the nature, or having the appearance, of a spirit; pure; refined; ethereal. |
| Spiriting |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Spirit |
| Spiritism |
n. |
Spiritualsm. |
| Spiritist |
n. |
A spiritualist. |
| Spiritless |
a. |
Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed. |
| Spiritless |
a. |
Destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage, or fire. |
| Spiritless |
a. |
Having no breath; extinct; dead. |
| Spiritoso |
a. & adv. |
Spirited; spiritedly;
a direction to perform a passage in an animated, lively manner. |
| Spiritous |
a. |
Like spirit; refined; defecated; pure. |
| Spiritous |
a. |
Ardent; active. |
| Spiritousness |
n. |
Quality of being spiritous. |
| Spiritual |
a. |
Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being. |
| Spiritual |
a. |
Of or pertaining to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual. |
| Spiritual |
a. |
Of or pertaining to the moral feelings or states of the soul, as distinguished from the external actions; reaching and affecting the spirits. |
| Spiritual |
a. |
Of or pertaining to the soul or its affections as influenced by the Spirit; controlled and inspired by the divine Spirit; proceeding from the Holy Spirit; pure; holy; divine; heavenly-minded;
opposed to carnal. |
| Spiritual |
a. |
Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical; as, the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation. |
| Spiritual |
n. |
A spiritual function, office, or affair. See Spirituality, 2. |
| Spiritual-minded |
a. |
Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. |
| Spiritualism |
n. |
The quality or state of being spiritual. |
| Spiritualism |
n. |
The doctrine, in opposition to the materialists, that all which exists is spirit, or soul
that what is called the external world is either a succession of notions impressed on the mind by the Deity, as maintained by Berkeley, or else the mere educt of the mind itself, as taught by Fichte. |
| Spiritualism |
n. |
A belief that departed spirits hold intercourse with mortals by means of physical phenomena, as by rappng, or during abnormal mental states, as in trances, or the like, commonly manifested through a person of special susceptibility, called a medium; spiritism; the doctrines and practices of spiritualists. |
| Spiritualist |
n. |
One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic. |
| Spiritualist |
n. |
One who maintains the doctrine of spiritualism. |
| Spiritualist |
n. |
One who believes in direct intercourse with departed spirits, through the agency of persons commonly called mediums, by means of physical phenomena; one who attempts to maintain such intercourse; a spiritist. |
| Spiritualist |
a. |
Spiritualistic. |
| Spiritualistic |
a. |
Relating to, or connected with, spiritualism. |
| Spiritualities |
pl. |
of Spirituality |
| Spirituality |
n. |
The quality or state of being spiritual; incorporeality; heavenly-mindedness. |
| Spirituality |
n. |
That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities. |
| Spirituality |
n. |
An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality. |
| Spiritualization |
n. |
The act of spiritualizing, or the state of being spiritualized. |
| Spiritualize |
v. t. |
To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. |
| Spiritualize |
v. t. |
To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense;
opposed to literalize. |
| Spiritualize |
v. t. |
To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. |
| Spiritualized |
imp. & p. p. |
of Spiritualize |
| Spiritualizer |
n. |
One who spiritualizes. |
| Spiritualizing |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Spiritualize |
| Spiritually |
adv. |
In a spiritual manner; with purity of spirit; like a spirit. |
| Spiritualness |
n. |
The quality or state of being spiritual or spiritual-minded; spirituality. |
| Spiritualty |
n. |
An ecclesiastical body; a spirituality. |
| Spirituosity |
n. |
The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness. |
| Spirituous |
a. |
Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. |
| Spirituous |
a. |
Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic (esp. distilled) spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent; as, spirituous liquors. |
| Spirituous |
a. |
Lively; gay; vivid; airy. |
| Spirituousness |
n. |
The quality or state of being spirituous. |
