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SPIR'IT, n. L. spiritus, from spiro, to breathe, to blow. The primary sense is to rush or drive.
1. Primarily, wind air in motion hence, breath. All bodies have spirits and pneumatical parts within them. This sense is now unusual.
2. Animal excitement, or the effect of it life ardor fire courage elevation or vehemence of mind. The troops attacked the enemy with great spirit. The young man has the spirit of youth. He speaks or act with spirit. Spirits, in the plural, is used in nearly a like sense. The troops began to recover their spirits.
3. Vigor of intellect genius. His wit, his beauty and his spirit. The noblest spirit or genius cannot deserve enough of mankind to pretend to the esteem of heroic virtue.
4. Temper disposition of mind, habitual or temporary as a man of a generous spirit, or of a revengeful spirit the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit. Let us go to the house of God in the spirit of prayer.
5. The soul of man the intelligent, immaterial and immortal part of human beings. See Soul. the spirit shall return to God that gave it. Eceles. 12.
6. An immaterial intelligent substance. Spirit is a substance in which thinking, knowing, doubting, and a power of moving do subsist. Hence,
7. An immaterial intelligent being. By which he went and preached to the spirit in prison. 1 Peter 3 . God is a spirit. John 4 .
8. Turn of mind temper occasions state of the mind. A perfect judge will read each work of wit, with the same spirit that its author writ.
9. Powers of mind distinct from the body. In spirit perhaps he also saw Rich Mexico, the seat of Montezume.
10. Sentiment perception. You spirit is too true, your fears too certain.
11. Eager desire disposition of mind excited and directed to a particular object. God has made a spirit of building succeed a spirit of pulling down.
12. A person of activity a man of life, vigor or enterprise. The watery kingdom is no bar to stop the foreign spirits, but they come.
13. Persons distinguished by qualities of the mind. Such spirits as he desired to please, such would I choose for my judges.
14. Excitement of mind animation cheerfulness usually in the plural. We found our friend in very good spirits. He has a great flow of spirits. -To sing thy praise, would heaven my breath prolong, Infusing spirits worthy such a song.
15. Life or strength of resemblance essential qualities as, to set off the face in its true spirit. The copy has not the spirit of the original.
16. Something eminently pure and refined. Nor doth the eye itself, that most pure spirit of sense, behold itself.
17. That which hath power or energy the quality of any substance which manifest life, activity, or the power of strongly affecting other bodies as the spirit of wine or of any liquor.
18. A strong, pungent or stimulation liquor, usually obtained by distillation, as rum, brandy, gin, whiskey. In America, spirit, used without other words explanatory of its meaning, signifies the liquor distilled from cane-juice, or rum. We say, new spirit, or old spirit, Jamaica spirit, &c.
19. An apparition a ghost.
20. The renewed nature of man. Matthew 26 . Galatians 5 .
21. The influences of the Holy Spirit. Matthew 22 .
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Spirit'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/s/spirit.html.
Entry for 'Spirit'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/s/spirit.html.
