Spirit Synonyms & Definitions

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• SpiritDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) A rough breathing; an aspirate, as the letter h; also, a mark to denote aspiration; a breathing.
2. (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.
3. (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.
4. (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.
5. (n.) Tenuous, volatile, airy, or vapory substance, possessed of active qualities.
6. (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.
7. (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.
8. (n.) Specifically, a disembodied soul; the human soul after it has left the body.
9. (n.) A solution in alcohol of a volatile principle. Cf. Tincture.
10. (n.) Stannic chloride. See under Stannic.
11. (n.) Any supernatural being, good or bad; an apparition; a specter; a ghost; also, sometimes, a sprite,; a fairy; an elf.
12. (n.) Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors.
13. (v. t.) To convey rapidly and secretly, or mysteriously, as if by the agency of a spirit; to kidnap; -- often with away, or off.
14. (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.
15. (n.) Any one of the four substances, sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, or arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
16. (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.
17. (n.) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
18. (n.) Energy, vivacity, ardor, enthusiasm, courage, etc.

• SpirituosityDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness.