spirit
IPA: spˈɪrʌt
noun
- The soul of a person or other creature.
- A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.
- Enthusiasm.
- The manner or style of something.
- Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.
- (usually in the plural) A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term for distilled alcoholic beverages.
- Energy; ardour.
- One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper.
- (often in the plural) Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state.
- (obsolete) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
- (obsolete) A rough breathing; an aspirate, such as the letter h; also, a mark denoting aspiration.
- (alchemy, obsolete) Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
- (dyeing) Stannic chloride.
- (Christianity) Synonym of Holy Spirit.
verb
- To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.
- Sometimes followed by up: to animate with vigour; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit.
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Examples of "spirit" in Sentences
- The word spirit comes from the Latin spiritus, “breath.”
- Front and center are philosophical problems brought up by the term "spirit."
- The spirit exists in vegetables, and is extracted by means of the organs of the animals which feed upon them, and then, "by a delicate work of distillation, it is converted into _spirit_!"
- In the proposition _That which is flesh is flesh, and that which is spirit is spirit_, Christ formulates the first law of biological religion, and lays the basis for a final classification.
- As a proof that this view of the construction is correct, let L.B.L. substitute for "delighted spirit", _spirit no longer delighted_, and he will find that it gives precisely the sense which he deduces from the passage as it stands.
- It was his desire that we should be actuated in all our dealings by the spirit of Faith, as far at least as that is possible, so as to arrive at last at that summit of perfect charity which the Apostle calls the more excellent way, and of which he says that _he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit_.
- Now the spirit is Life, and throughout the universe Life ultimately consists in _circulation_, whether within the physical body of the individual or on the scale of the entire solar system; and circulation means a continual flowing around, and the _spirit_ of opulence is no exception to this universal law of all life.
- Had the constitutional convention been a sectional and not a national organization; had its members been governed by a sectional and not a national spirit, they would doubtless have taken one or the other of the horns of this dilemma, but in that "_spirit of amity, mutual deference and concession_," which governed their lofty patriotism, they took neither of the extremes.
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