<B>spirit, </B>noun, verb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the immaterial part of man; soul. <BR> <I>Ex. He is present in spirit, though absent in body. Many religions teach that at death the spirit leaves the body. And the spirit shall return unto God who gave it (Ecclesiastes 12:7).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>man's moral, religious, or emotional nature. <BR> <I>Ex. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me (Psalms 51:10).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a supernatural being. God is a spirit. Ghosts and fairies are spirits. <BR> <I>Ex. ... the Spirit of Christmas Past (Dickens).</I> (SYN) phantom, specter, apparition. <DD><B> 4. </B>a person; personality. <BR> <I>Ex. Hers is a brave spirit. He was one of the leading spirits of the revolution. Robert E. Lee was a noble spirit.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>an influence that stirs up and rouses. <BR> <I>Ex. a spirit of reform, the spirit of independence. A spirit of progress is good for people.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>courage; vigor; liveliness. <BR> <I>Ex. a man of spirit. A race horse must have spirit.</I> (SYN) animation, mettle, vivacity. <DD><B> 7. </B>enthusiasm and loyalty. <BR> <I>Ex. school spirit.</I> (SYN) ardor, zeal. <DD><B> 8a. </B>what is really meant as opposed to what is said or written. <BR> <I>Ex. The spirit of a law is more important than its words.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the prevailing character, quality, or tendency. <BR> <I>Ex. the spirit of our institutions.</I> <DD><B> 9. </B>any one of various mordant solutions used in dyeing, usually prepared from tin salts. <DD><B> 10. </B>(Chemistry, Obsolete.) a liquid essence or extract of a substance, especially one obtained by distillation. <DD><B> 11. </B>(Alchemy.) one of four substances: sulfur, sal ammoniac, mercury, or orpiment. <DD><B> 12. </B><B>Spirit,</B> God (in the belief of Christian Scientists). <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to carry (away or off) secretly. <BR> <I>Ex. The child has been spirited away.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to stir or cheer up; encourage; cheer. <DD><B> 3. </B>to produce as if by magic; conjure (up). <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or having to do with spirits or spiritualism. <BR> <I>Ex. the spirit world.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with alcoholic spirits. <BR><I>expr. <B>out of spirits,</B> </I>sad or gloomy. <BR> <I>Ex. Who can be out of spirits in such weather? (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>spirits,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>a state of mind; disposition; temper; humor; mood. </I> <I>Ex. He is in good spirits.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>vigor; liveliness; cheerfulness. <BR> <I>Ex. The horse would roll when he was bringing him up from the stable; he's so full of spirits (Harriet Beecher Stowe).</I> <DD><B> c. </B>a solution of a volatile substance in alcohol. <BR> <I>Ex. spirits of camphor.</I> <DD><B> d. </B>a strong alcoholic liquor. Whiskey and brandy are spirits. <BR> <I>Ex. He drinks beer and wine but no spirits.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>the Spirit,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>God. </I> <I>Ex. The apostolic power with which the Spirit Has filled its elect vessels (Shelley).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the Holy Ghost. <BR> <I>Ex. ... if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live (Romans 8:13).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="spiritchild">
<B>spirit-child, </B>noun, pl. <B>-children.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the form in which every individual was created by God before the earth was made, according to the teachings of the Mormon Church. </DL>
<A NAME="spiritduplicator">
<B>spirit duplicator,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a duplicator that uses a master sheet on which the image to be copied is impregnated with a dye, a portion of which is dissolved by an alcohol-base fluid and transferred to the copy paper. </DL>
<A NAME="spirited">
<B>spirited, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>full of energy and spirit; lively; dashing; bold. <BR> <I>Ex. a spirited race horse. He entered into a spirited discussion concerning the relative merits of the imperishable Master of Baker Street (Anthony Boucher).</I> (SYN) animated, mettlesome. <DD><B> 2. </B>having a spirit or spirits. <BR> <I>Ex. good-spirited, mean-spirited, low-spirited.</I> adv. <B>spiritedly.</B> noun <B>spiritedness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="spiritgum">
<B>spirit gum,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a quick-drying preparation of gum used by actors and others to glue false hair to the head or face. </DL>
<B>spirit lamp,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a lamp in which alcohol is burned. </DL>
<A NAME="spiritless">
<B>spiritless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>without spirit or courage; without vigor; depressed; dejected. <BR> <I>Ex. tired, spiritless soldiers.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>without liveliness; not spirited; tame. <BR> <I>Ex. The evening was passed in spiritless conversation (Fanny Burney).</I> adv. <B>spiritlessly.</B> noun <B>spiritlessness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="spiritlevel">
<B>spirit level,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an instrument used to find out whether a surface is level, using an air bubble in a liquid-filled glass tube. When the air bubble is exactly in the middle of the tube, the surface is level. </DL>
<B>spiritous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Archaic.) like an essence or distilled product; pure. <DD><B> 2. </B>alcoholic; spirituous. </DL>
<A NAME="spiritrapping">
<B>spirit rapping,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> rapping or knocking, believed to be a form of communication from or with spirits. </DL>
<A NAME="spirits">
<B>spirits, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>spirit.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="spirits">
<B>spirits</B> or <B>spirit of hartshorn,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a water solution of ammonia. </DL>
<A NAME="spirits">
<B>spirits</B> or <B>spirit of turpentine,</B> =oil of turpentine.</DL>
<A NAME="spirits">
<B>spirits</B> or <B>spirit of wine,</B> =alcohol.</DL>
<A NAME="spiritual">
<B>spiritual, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or having something to do with the spirit or soul. <BR> <I>Ex. an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace given unto us (Book of Common Prayer).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>caring much for things of the spirit or soul. <BR> <I>Ex. Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force (Emerson).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>of or having to do with spirits; supernatural. <BR> <I>Ex. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen (Milton).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>of or having to do with the church. <BR> <I>Ex. spiritual lords.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>sacred; religious. <BR> <I>Ex. spiritual writings, a spiritual order. A minister is a spiritual leader.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a religious song which originated among the Negroes of the southern United States. <BR> <I>Ex. While the Negro was being assimilated, however, America was adding such Negro contributions as jazz music and spirituals to its cultural store (Ogburn and Nimkoff).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>spirituals,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>matters primarily concerning religion or the church. </I> <I>Ex. The civil power does best absolutely and unreservedly to ignore spirituals (John Morley).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>spiritual matters, affairs, or ideas. <BR> <I>Ex. He [Dante] assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals (James Russell Lowell).</I> adv. <B>spiritually.</B> noun <B>spiritualness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="spiritualbouquet">
<B>spiritual bouquet,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a card listing prayers, Masses, or good works done in behalf of a living or dead person, sent by Roman Catholics on special occasions. </DL>
<B>spiritualism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the belief that the spirits of the dead can communicate with the living, especially through persons called mediums; spiritism. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Philosophy.) the doctrine or belief that spirit alone is real. <DD><B> 3. </B>spiritual quality; emphasis or insistence on the spiritual. <BR> <I>Ex. He often checked Seth's argumentative spiritualism by saying "Eh, it's a big mystery" (George Eliot).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="spiritualist">
<B>spiritualist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a person who believes that the dead communicate with the living. <DD><B> 2. </B>a believer in or adherent of spiritualism as a philosophical doctrine. <DD><B> 3. </B>a person who sees or interprets things from a spiritual point of view. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>=spiritualistic.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="spiritualistic">
<B>spiritualistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with spiritualism or spiritualists. </DL>
<A NAME="spirituality">
<B>spirituality, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>devotion to spiritual things instead of worldly things. <BR> <I>Ex. Prayer is, undoubtedly, the life and soul of spirituality (John Jebb).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the fact or quality of being spiritual; being neither corporeal nor material. <BR> <I>Ex. That He is invisible is accounted for by His spirituality (James Tait).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Archaic.) the clergy. <BR> <I>Ex. He blamed both spirituality and laity (John Strype).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>spiritualities,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>spiritual things. </I> <I>Ex. So these pretended successors ofPeter ... have notoriously imitated that example of Simon in buying and selling spiritualities (Henry More).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>properties or revenues of the church or of a clergyman in his official capacity. <BR> <I>Ex. Their spiritualities, the tithes and oblations, were not to be taxed (William Stubbs).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="spiritualize">
<B>spiritualize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to make spiritual. <DD><B> 2. </B>to give a spiritual sense or meaning to. <BR> <I>Ex. The works of Richardson ... are romances as they would be spiritualized by a Methodist preacher (Horace Walpole).</I> noun <B>spiritualization.</B> noun <B>spiritualizer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="spirituals">
<B>spirituals, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>spiritual.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="spiritualty">
<B>spiritualty, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>Often, <B>spiritualties.</B> the property or revenue of the church or of a clergyman. <DD><B> 2. </B>the clergy. </DL>
<A NAME="spirituel">
<B>spirituel, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> showing a refined mind or wit. </DL>
