'Spiriting' definitions:
Definition of 'Spiriting'
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]
Words containing 'Spiriting'
- Spirit,
- Spiritally,
- Spirited,
- Spiritedly,
- Spiritful,
- Spiritfully,
- Spiritfulness,
- 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