Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SPIR'IT-SEARCH-ING, a.

Searching the spirit.

SPIR'IT-STIR-RING, or SPIR'IT-ROUS-ING, a.

Exciting the spirit. – Scott.

SPIR'IT-U-AL, a. [Fr. spirituel; It. spirituale; L. spirituale.]

1. Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being. The soul of man is spiritual.
2. Mental; intellectual; as, spiritual armor. – Milton.
3. Not gross; refined from external things; not sensual; relating to mind only; as, a spiritual and refined religion. – Calamy.
4. Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical; as, the spiritual functions of the clergy; the lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation.
5. Pertaining to spirit or to the affections; pure; holy. God's law is spiritual; it is a transcript of the divine nature, and extends its authority to the acts of the soul of man. – Brown.
6. Pertaining to the renewed nature of man; as, spiritual life.
7. Not fleshly; not material; as, spiritual sacrifices. – 1 Pet. ii.
8. Pertaining to divine things; as, spiritual songs. – Eph. v. Spiritual court, an ecclesiastical court; a court hold by a bishop or other ecclesiastic.

SPIR'IT-U-AL-ISM, n.¹

1. The doctrine of the existence of spirits, as distinct from matter.
2. State of being spiritual. – Jefferson.

SPIR'IT-U-AL-ISM, n.²

The doctrine that all which exists is spirit or soul, as distinct from materialism.

SPIR'IT-U-AL-IST, n.

One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is spiritual. – Hallywell.

SPIR-IT-U-AL'I-TY, n.

1. Essence distinct from matter; immateriality. If this light be not spiritual, it approacheth nearest to spirituality. – Ralegh.
2. Intellectual nature; as, the spirituality of the soul. – South.
3. Spiritual nature; the quality which respects the spirit or affections of the heart only, and the essence of true religion, as, the spirituality of God's law.
4. Spiritual exercises and holy affections. Much of our spirituality and comfort in public worship depend on the state of mind in which we come. – Bickersteth.
5. That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion; as distinct from temporalities. During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof. Blackstone.
6. An ecclesiastical body. [Not in use.] – Shak.

SPIR-IT-U-AL-I-ZA'TION, n.

The act of spiritualizing. In chimistry, the operation of extracting spirit from natural bodies. Encyc.

SPIR'IT-U-AL-IZE, v.i. [Fr. spiritualiser, to extract spirit from mixed bodies.]

1. To refine the intellect; to purify from the feculences of the world; as, to spiritualize the soul. Hammond.
2. In chimistry, to extract spirit from natural bodies.
3. To convert to a spiritual meaning.

SPIR'IT-U-AL-IZ-ER, n.

One who spiritualizes. – Warburton.

SPIR'IT-U-AL-LY, adv.

Without corporeal grossness or sensuality; in a manner conformed to the spirit of true religion with purity of spirit or heart. Spiritually minded, under the influence of the Holy Spirit or of holy principles; having the affections refined and elevated above sensual objects, and placed on God and his law. Rom. viii. Spiritually discerned, known, not by carnal reason, but by the peculiar illumination of the Holy Spirit. – 1 Cor. ii.

SPIR'IT-U-AL-TY, n.

Ecclesiastical body. [Not in use.]

SPIRITUOSO, adv. [Spirituoso.]

In music, with spirit.

SPIR'IT-U-OUS, a. [Fr. spiritueux.]

1. Containing spirit; consisting of refined spirit; ardent as, spirituous liquors. [This might well be written spiritous.]
2. Having the quality of spirit; fine; pure; active; as, the spirituous part of a plant. – Arbuthnot.
3. Lively; gay; vivid; airy. [Not in use.] – Wotton.

SPIR'IT-U-OUS-NESS, n.

1. The quality of being spirituous ardor; heat; stimulating quality; as, the spirituousness of liquors.
2. Life; tenuity; activity.

SPIRT, v. [or n. See Spurt, the more correct orthography.]

SPIR'TLE, v.t.

To spirt in a scattering manner.

SPIR'TLED, pp.

Spirted scatteringly.

SPIR-Y, a. [from spire.]

1. Of a spiral form; wreathed; curled; as, the spiry volumes of a serpent. – Dryden.
2. Having the form of a pyramid; pyramidical; as, spiry turrets. – Pope.

SPISS, a. [L. spissus.]

Thick; close; dense. [Not in use.]

SPISS'I-TUDE, n. [supra.]

Thickness of soft substances the denseness or compactness which belongs to substances not perfectly liquid nor perfectly solid; as, the spissitude coagulated blood or of any coagulum.

SPIT, n.¹ [Sax. spitu; D. spit; G. spiess; Sw. spett; Dan. spid; It. spiedo; Ice. spiet, a spear. It belongs to Class Bd, and is from thrusting, shooting.]

1. An iron prong or bar pointed, on which meat is roasted.
2. Such a depth of earth as is pierced by the spade at once. [D. spit, a spade.] – Mortimer.
3. A small point of land running into the sea, or a long narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea; as, a spit of sand.

SPIT, n.² [Dan. spyt.]

What is ejected from the mouth; saliva.

SPIT, v.i.

To throw out saliva from the mouth. It is a dirty trick to spit on the floor or carpet.

SPIT, v.t.¹ [from the noun.]

1. To thrust a spit through; Put upon a spit; as, to spit a loin of veal.
2. To thrust through; to pierce. – Dryden.
3. To spade; to dig.