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Definition of Spirit

Spirit Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself. A rough breathing; an aspirate, as the letter h; also, a mark to denote aspiration; a breathing. 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. 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. Specifically, a disembodied soul; the human soul after it has left the body. Any supernatural being, good or bad; an apparition; a specter; a ghost; also, sometimes, a sprite,; a fairy; an elf. Energy, vivacity, ardor, enthusiasm, courage, etc. 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. 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. 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. Tenuous, volatile, airy, or vapory substance, possessed of active qualities. Any liquid produced by distillation; especially, alcohol, the spirits, or spirit, of wine (it having been first distilled from wine): -- often in the plural. Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors. A solution in alcohol of a volatile principle. Cf. Tincture. Any one of the four substances, sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, or arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment). Stannic chloride. See under Stannic. To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; as, civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men; -- sometimes followed by up. To convey rapidly and secretly, or mysteriously, as if by the agency of a spirit; to kidnap; -- often with away, or off. Related Definitions: According, Active, Activity, After, Agency, Agent, Air, Airy, Alcohol, Also, Ambition, Ammoniac, An, And, Animate, Any, Apart, Apparition, Ardor, Arsenic, As, Aspirate, Aspiration, Away, Bad, Be, Been, Being, Body, Brandy, Breath, Breathing, By, Character, Characteristic, Cheerful, Chloride, Civil, Conceived, Condition, Considered, Convey, Corporeal, Courage, Denote, Derived, Disembodied, Disposition, Distillation, Distilled, Distinct, Distinction, Document, Downhearted, Elf, Embodiment, Encourage, Energy, Enterprise, Enthusiasm, Especially, Essence, Excite, Existence, Fairy, First, Followed, Force, Formal, Four, From, Genius, Ghost, Gin, Good, Great, Having, Hence, Human, Has, If, Immaterial, Immortal, In, Independently, Individual, Inspirit, Intellectual, Intelligence, Intelligent, Intent, Is, It, Itself, Kidnap, Left, Letter, Life, Like, Liquid, Lively, Living, Malt, Man, Mark, Material, Matter, Meaning, Men, Mental, Mind, Moral, Motion, Much, Mysteriously, Of, Off, Often, One, Opposed, Or, Organization, Orpiment, Other, Part, Peculiar, Personal, Physical, Plural, Possessed, Principle, Private, Produced, Qualities, Quality, Quicksilver, Rapidly, Real, Rough, Ruling, Rum, Sal, Schismatic, Secretly, See, Set, Solution, Some, Sometimes, Soul, Specifically, Specter, Spirit, Spiritual, Sprite, Stannic, State, Statement, Subject, Substance, Such, Sulphur, Supernatural, Temper, Tenuous, The, Tincture, To, Under, Up, Vapory, Vigor, Vital, Vivacious, Vivacity, Volatile, Whether, Which, Whisky, Who, Wine, With

Spirit Quotations In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. Albert Schweitzer A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. Thomas Jefferson Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. Ralph Waldo Emerson You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. Henry Drummond A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends. Friedrich Nietzsche

Spirit Translations spirit in Dutch is geest spirit in Finnish is henki spirit in German is Geist, Geist, Sprit spirit in Italian is mente spirit in Latin is animus, phasma phasmatis

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