'Spirit' definitions:
Definition of 'spirit'
From: WordNet
noun
The vital principle or animating force within living things
noun
The general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" [syn: spirit, tone, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell]
noun
A fundamental emotional and activating principle determining one's character
noun
Any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings [syn: spirit, disembodied spirit]
noun
The state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection); "his emotional state depended on her opinion"; "he was in good spirits"; "his spirit rose" [syn: emotional state, spirit]
noun
noun
Animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it" [syn: liveliness, life, spirit, sprightliness]
noun
An inclination or tendency of a certain kind; "he had a change of heart" [syn: heart, spirit]
verb
Definition of 'Spirit'
From: GCIDE
- Spirit \Spir"it\, n. [OF. espirit, esperit, F. esprit, L. spiritus, from spirare to breathe, to blow. Cf. Conspire, Expire, Esprit, Sprite.]
- 1. Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself. [Obs.] "All of spirit would deprive." --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- The mild air, with season moderate, Gently attempered, and disposed eo well, That still it breathed foorth sweet spirit. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A rough breathing; an aspirate, as the letter h; also, a mark to denote aspiration; a breathing. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Be it a letter or spirit, we have great use for it. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. 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. [1913 Webster]
- There is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding. --Job xxxii. 8. [1913 Webster]
- As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. --James ii. 26. [1913 Webster]
- Spirit is a substance wherein thinking, knowing, doubting, and a power of moving, do subsist. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Specifically, a disembodied soul; the human soul after it has left the body. [1913 Webster]
- Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. --Eccl. xii. 7. [1913 Webster]
- Ye gentle spirits far away, With whom we shared the cup of grace. --Keble. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Any supernatural being, good or bad; an apparition; a specter; a ghost; also, sometimes, a sprite,; a fairy; an elf. [1913 Webster]
- Whilst young, preserve his tender mind from all impressions of spirits and goblins in the dark. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Energy, vivacity, ardor, enthusiasm, courage, etc. [1913 Webster]
- "Write it then, quickly," replied Bede; and summoning all his spirits together, like the last blaze of a candle going out, he indited it, and expired. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- 8. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Such spirits as he desired to please, such would I choose for my judges. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 9. 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. [1913 Webster]
- God has . . . made a spirit of building succeed a spirit of pulling down. --South. [1913 Webster]
- A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 10. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 11. Tenuous, volatile, airy, or vapory substance, possessed of active qualities. [1913 Webster]
- All bodies have spirits . . . within them. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 12. Any liquid produced by distillation; especially, alcohol, the spirits, or spirit, of wine (it having been first distilled from wine): -- often in the plural. [1913 Webster]
- 13. pl. Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors. [1913 Webster]
- 14. (Med.) A solution in alcohol of a volatile principle. Cf. Tincture. --U. S. Disp. [1913 Webster]
- 15. (Alchemy) Any one of the four substances, sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, or arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment). [1913 Webster]
- The four spirits and the bodies seven. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 16. (Dyeing) Stannic chloride. See under Stannic. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Spirit is sometimes joined with other words, forming compounds, generally of obvious signification; as, spirit-moving, spirit-searching, spirit-stirring, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Astral spirits, Familiar spirits, etc. See under Astral, Familiar, etc.
- Animal spirits. (a) (Physiol.) The fluid which at one time was supposed to circulate through the nerves and was regarded as the agent of sensation and motion; -- called also the nervous fluid, or nervous principle. (b) Physical health and energy; frolicsomeness; sportiveness.
- Ardent spirits, strong alcoholic liquors, as brandy, rum, whisky, etc., obtained by distillation.
- Holy Spirit, or The Spirit (Theol.), the Spirit of God, or the third person of the Trinity; the Holy Ghost. The spirit also signifies the human spirit as influenced or animated by the Divine Spirit.
- Proof spirit. (Chem.) See under Proof.
- Rectified spirit (Chem.), spirit rendered purer or more concentrated by redistillation, so as to increase the percentage of absolute alcohol.
- Spirit butterfly (Zool.), any one of numerous species of delicate butterflies of tropical America belonging to the genus Ithomia. The wings are gauzy and nearly destitute of scales.
- Spirit duck. (Zool.) (a) The buffle-headed duck. (b) The golden-eye.
- Spirit lamp (Art), a lamp in which alcohol or methylated spirit is burned.
- Spirit level. See under Level.
- Spirit of hartshorn. (Old Chem.) See under Hartshorn.
- Spirit of Mindererus (Med.), an aqueous solution of acetate of ammonium; -- named after R. Minderer, physician of Augsburg.
- Spirit of nitrous ether (Med. Chem.), a pale yellow liquid, of a sweetish taste and a pleasant ethereal odor. It is obtained by the distillation of alcohol with nitric and sulphuric acids, and consists essentially of ethyl nitrite with a little acetic aldehyde. It is used as a diaphoretic, diuretic, antispasmodic, etc. Called also sweet spirit of niter.
- Spirit of salt (Chem.), hydrochloric acid; -- so called because obtained from salt and sulphuric acid. [Obs.]
- Spirit of sense, the utmost refinement of sensation. [Obs.] --Shak.
- Spirits of turpentine, or Spirit of turpentine (Chem.), rectified oil of turpentine, a transparent, colorless, volatile, and very inflammable liquid, distilled from the turpentine of the various species of pine; camphine. It is commonly used to remove paint from surfaces, or to dissole oil-based paint. See Camphine.
- Spirit of vitriol (Chem.), sulphuric acid; -- so called because formerly obtained by the distillation of green vitriol. [Obs.]
- Spirit of vitriolic ether (Chem.) ethyl ether; -- often but incorrectly called sulphuric ether. See Ether. [Obs.]
- Spirits of wine, or Spirit of wine (Chem.), alcohol; -- so called because formerly obtained by the distillation of wine.
- Spirit rapper, one who practices spirit rapping; a "medium" so called.
- Spirit rapping, an alleged form of communication with the spirits of the dead by raps. See Spiritualism, 3.
- Sweet spirit of niter. See Spirit of nitrous ether, above. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Life; ardor; energy; fire; courage; animatioon; cheerfulness; vivacity; enterprise. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Spirit'
From: GCIDE
- Spirit \Spir"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spirited; p. pr. & vb. n. Spiriting.]
- 1. To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; as, civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men; -- sometimes followed by up. [1913 Webster]
- Many officers and private men spirit up and assist those obstinate people to continue in their rebellion. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To convey rapidly and secretly, or mysteriously, as if by the agency of a spirit; to kidnap; -- often with away, or off. [1913 Webster]
- The ministry had him spirited away, and carried abroad as a dangerous person. --Arbuthnot & Pope. [1913 Webster]
- I felt as if I had been spirited into some castle of antiquity. --Willis. [1913 Webster]
- Spiriting away (Law), causing to leave; the offense of inducing a witness to leave a jurisdiction so as to evade process requiring attendance at trial. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Spirit'
From: Easton
- Spirit (Heb. ruah; Gr. pneuma), properly wind or breath. In 2 Thess. 2:8 it means "breath," and in Eccl. 8:8 the vital principle in man. It also denotes the rational, immortal soul by which man is distinguished (Acts 7:59; 1 Cor. 5:5; 6:20; 7:34), and the soul in its separate state (Heb. 12:23), and hence also an apparition (Job 4:15; Luke 24:37, 39), an angel (Heb. 1:14), and a demon (Luke 4:36; 10:20). This word is used also metaphorically as denoting a tendency (Zech. 12:10; Luke 13:11).
- In Rom. 1:4, 1 Tim. 3:16, 2 Cor. 3:17, 1 Pet. 3:18, it designates the divine nature.
Synonyms of 'spirit'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandon,
- abduce,
- abduct,
- activity,
- adventuresomeness,
- adventurousness,
- affective meaning,
- afflatus,
- aggression,
- aggressiveness,
- aim,
- air,
- airy nothing,
- alacrity,
- alcohol,
- ambitiousness,
- anima,
- anima humana,
- animal spirits,
- animate,
- animating force,
- animation,
- animus,
- anxiety,
- anxiousness,
- apparition,
- appearance,
- appetite,
- aqua vitae,
- ardency,
- ardor,
- astral,
- astral body,
- astral spirit,
- atman,
- atmosphere,
- attitude,
- atua,
- aura,
- avidity,
- avidness,
- axiom,
- ba,
- backbone,
- banshee,
- baring,
- bathmism,
- beating heart,
- being,
- bent,
- biological clock,
- biorhythm,
- blood,
- body-build,
- bones,
- booze,
- bosom,
- bottom,
- brand,
- bravery,
- breast,
- breath,
- breath of life,
- breathless impatience,
- breeziness,
- brio,
- briskness,
- bubble,
- bubbliness,
- buddhi,
- capersomeness,
- carry away,
- carry off,
- cast,
- center,
- center of life,
- character,
- characteristic,
- characteristics,
- cheer,
- cheerful readiness,
- chutzpah,
- climate,
- coloring,
- coltishness,
- commitment,
- committedness,
- complexion,
- composition,
- concentrate,
- concentration,
- connotation,
- consciousness,
- consequence,
- constituents,
- constitution,
- control,
- core,
- courage,
- crasis,
- creative thought,
- creativity,
- crimp,
- cue,
- daemon,
- daimonion,
- daring,
- dash,
- dauntlessness,
- decoction,
- dedication,
- demon,
- denotation,
- departed spirit,
- desire,
- devotedness,
- devotion,
- devoutness,
- dharma,
- diathesis,
- disembodied spirit,
- disposition,
- distillate,
- distillation,
- divine afflatus,
- divine breath,
- divine spark,
- drift,
- drink,
- drive,
- duppy,
- dybbuk,
- dynamism,
- eagerness,
- earnestness,
- ebullience,
- ecstasy,
- effect,
- effervescence,
- ego,
- eidolon,
- elan,
- elan vital,
- elixir,
- embue,
- energy,
- enliven,
- enterprise,
- enterprisingness,
- enthusiasm,
- esoteric reality,
- esprit,
- esprit de corps,
- essence,
- essence of life,
- essential,
- ether,
- ethos,
- evil spirits,
- excitement,
- exhilarate,
- extension,
- extract,
- extraction,
- exuberance,
- fabric,
- faith,
- faithfulness,
- feel,
- feeling,
- feelings,
- fervency,
- fervidness,
- fervor,
- fiber,
- fidelity,
- fire,
- fire of genius,
- firewater,
- flower,
- focus,
- force,
- force of life,
- forcefulness,
- form,
- forwardness,
- frame,
- frame of mind,
- friskiness,
- frolicsomeness,
- fundamental,
- furor,
- fury,
- gaiety,
- gameness,
- gamesomeness,
- gayness,
- Geist,
- genius,
- get-up-and-get,
- get-up-and-go,
- getup,
- ghost,
- gimp,
- ginger,
- gist,
- glow,
- go,
- go-ahead,
- go-getting,
- go-to-itiveness,
- grain,
- grammatical meaning,
- grateful dead,
- gravamen,
- grit,
- grog,
- gross body,
- growth force,
- guide,
- gumption,
- gust,
- gusto,
- guts,
- gutsiness,
- guttiness,
- habit,
- hant,
- haunt,
- heart,
- heart of hearts,
- heart of oak,
- heartbeat,
- heartblood,
- heartiness,
- heartstrings,
- heat,
- heatedness,
- hold for ransom,
- hooch,
- hue,
- humor,
- humors,
- hustle,
- hypostasis,
- idea,
- idolum,
- ilk,
- illusion,
- imbue,
- immateriality,
- impact,
- impassionedness,
- impatience,
- impetuosity,
- impetus,
- implication,
- import,
- impress,
- impulse,
- impulse of life,
- inclination,
- incorporeal,
- incorporeal being,
- incorporeity,
- infect,
- inform,
- infuse,
- infusion,
- initiative,
- inject,
- inmost heart,
- inmost soul,
- inner essence,
- inner man,
- inner nature,
- innermost being,
- inoculate,
- inside,
- inspiration,
- inspire,
- inspirit,
- inspiriting force,
- intelligence,
- intension,
- intensity,
- intent,
- intention,
- intentness,
- intestinal fortitude,
- jiva,
- jivatma,
- joie de vivre,
- juice,
- kama,
- keen desire,
- keenness,
- kernel,
- khu,
- kidnap,
- kind,
- larva,
- lemures,
- lexical meaning,
- life,
- life breath,
- life cycle,
- life essence,
- life force,
- life principle,
- life process,
- lifeblood,
- linga sharira,
- liquor,
- literal meaning,
- liveliness,
- living force,
- loyalty,
- lustiness,
- makeup,
- manas,
- manes,
- manfulness,
- manliness,
- marrow,
- Masan,
- material,
- materialization,
- matter,
- meaning,
- meat,
- medium,
- mediumism,
- message,
- mettle,
- mettlesomeness,
- might,
- milieu,
- mind,
- mist,
- mold,
- mood,
- morale,
- motivation,
- moxie,
- Muse,
- nature,
- necromancy,
- nephesh,
- nerve,
- nerve center,
- note,
- notion,
- nub,
- nucleus,
- nuts and bolts,
- oni,
- oomph,
- overtone,
- panache,
- passion,
- passionateness,
- passions,
- pep,
- pepper,
- peppiness,
- perkiness,
- persona,
- pertinence,
- pertness,
- phantasm,
- phantasma,
- phantom,
- physical body,
- physique,
- piquancy,
- piss and vinegar,
- pith,
- pizzazz,
- playfulness,
- pluck,
- pluckiness,
- pneuma,
- poignancy,
- point,
- poltergeist,
- postulate,
- power,
- practical consequence,
- prana,
- presence,
- principle,
- principle of desire,
- promptness,
- property,
- psyche,
- pungency,
- purification,
- purport,
- purpose,
- purusha,
- push,
- pushfulness,
- pushiness,
- pushingness,
- quality,
- quick,
- quickness,
- quid,
- quiddity,
- quintessence,
- raciness,
- range of meaning,
- readiness,
- real meaning,
- reference,
- referent,
- refinement,
- relation,
- relevance,
- relish,
- resoluteness,
- resolution,
- resolve,
- revenant,
- robustness,
- rollicksomeness,
- rompishness,
- ruach,
- run away with,
- sand,
- sap,
- sauce,
- savor,
- scope,
- seance,
- seat of life,
- secret heart,
- secret places,
- self,
- semantic cluster,
- semantic field,
- sense,
- sentiments,
- seriousness,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shanghai,
- shape,
- shrouded spirit,
- significance,
- signification,
- significatum,
- signifie,
- sincerity,
- sitting,
- skittishness,
- skyjack,
- smoke,
- snap,
- snatch,
- somatotype,
- sort,
- soul,
- span of meaning,
- spark of life,
- sparkle,
- specter,
- spectral ghost,
- spice,
- spirit away,
- spirit up,
- spiritedness,
- spiritism,
- spirits,
- spiritual being,
- spiritualism,
- spiritus,
- spook,
- sportiveness,
- sprightliness,
- sprite,
- spunk,
- spunkiness,
- stamina,
- stamp,
- starch,
- state of mind,
- sthula sharira,
- stout heart,
- streak,
- strength,
- stripe,
- strong drink,
- structural meaning,
- stuff,
- substance,
- suchness,
- sum,
- sum and substance,
- supernatural being,
- symbolic meaning,
- system,
- take away,
- talent,
- team spirit,
- temper,
- temperament,
- tendency,
- tenor,
- the nitty-gritty,
- the self,
- theophany,
- thin air,
- thought,
- timbre,
- tipple,
- tone,
- totality of associations,
- toughness,
- transferred meaning,
- transport,
- true being,
- true grit,
- true inwardness,
- type,
- umbra,
- unadorned meaning,
- undertone,
- unsubstantiality,
- up-and-comingness,
- urge,
- valor,
- value,
- vapor,
- vehemence,
- vein,
- venturesomeness,
- venturousness,
- verve,
- vigor,
- vim,
- vis vitae,
- vis vitalis,
- viscera,
- vision,
- vital energy,
- vital flame,
- vital fluid,
- vital force,
- vital principle,
- vital spark,
- vital spirit,
- vitality,
- vitals,
- vivaciousness,
- vivacity,
- vividness,
- walking dead man,
- wandering soul,
- warmth,
- warmth of feeling,
- way,
- will,
- wraith,
- zeal,
- zealousness,
- zest,
- zestfulness,
- zing,
- zip,
- zombie
Words containing 'Spirit'
- Spiritally,
- Spirited,
- Spiritedly,
- Spiritful,
- Spiritfully,
- Spiritfulness,
- Spiriting,
- Spiritism,
- Spiritous,
- Spiritousness,
- The Spirit,
- spirit off,
- spirit up,
- spiritize,
- spirits,
- Animal spirits,
- Ardent spirits,
- Astral spirits,
- Dulcified spirit,
- Dulcified spirits,
- Familiar spirit,
- Familiar spirits,
- Guardian spirit,
- Holy Spirit,
- Low spirits,
- Party spirit,
- Petroleum spirit,
- Proof spirit,
- Rectified spirit,
- Spirit Lake,
- Spirit butterfly,
- Spirit duck,
- Spirit lamp,
- Spirit level,
- Spirit of Mindererus,
- Spirit of hartshorn,
- Spirit of salt,
- Spirit of sense,
- Spirit of turpentine,
- Spirit of vitriol,
- Spirit of wine,
- Spirit rapper,
- Spirit rapping,
- Spiriting away,
- Spirits of hartshorn,
- Spirits of turpentine,
- Spirits of wine,
- The Great Spirit,
- To walk after the Spirit,
- Unclean spirit,
- Wood spirit,
- a spirit level,
- civic spirit,
- departed spirit,
- disembodied spirit,
- evil spirit,
- free spirit,
- good spirit,
- high spirited,
- high spirits,
- in good spirits,
- in high spirits,
- in low spirits,
- intercession of the spirit,
- low spirited,
- methylated spirit,
- moving spirit,
- neutral spirits,
- pyroacetic spirit,
- spirit away,
- spirit gum,
- spirit holy,
- spirit of tin,
- spirit stove,
- spirit world,
- spirits of ammonia,
- surgical spirit,
- team spirit,
- water spirit,
- witness of the spirit,
- zombi spirit,
- zombie spirit,
- High-spirited,
- Holy Spirit plant,
- Hot-spirited,
- Low-spirited,
- Male-spirited,
- Poor-spirited,
- Public-spirited,
- Public-spiritedly,
- Shad-spirit,
- Spirit Lake, IA,
- Spirit Lake, ID,
- Spirit of nitrous ether,
- Spirit of vitriolic ether,
- Sweet spirit of niter,
- Sweet spirits of niter,
- mean-spirited,
- party-spirited