spiriting

as inanimating

as insneak
as instimulate

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adj stimulating

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animating

adjective. stimulating

Word Origin & History

mid-13c., "animating or vital principle in man and animals," from Old French espirit, from Latin spiritus "soul, courage, vigor, breath," related to spirare "to breathe," from PIE *(s)peis- "to blow" (cf. Old Church Slavonic pisto "to play on the flute").

Original usage in English mainly from passages in Vulgate, where the Latin word translates Greek pneuma and Hebrew ruah. Distinction between "soul" and "spirit" (as "seat of emotions") became current in Christian terminology (e.g. Greek psykhe vs. pneuma, Latin anima vs. spiritus) but "is without significance for earlier periods" [Buck]. Latin spiritus, usually in classical Latin "breath," replaces animus in the sense "spirit" in the imperial period and appears in Christian writings as the usual equivalent of Greek pneuma.

Meaning "supernatural being" is attested from c.1300 (see ghost); that of "essential principle of something" (in a non-theological sense, e.g. Spirit of St. Louis) is attested from 1690, common after 1800. Plural form spirits "volatile substance" is an alchemical idea, first attested 1610; sense narrowed to "strong alcoholic liquor" by 1670s. This also is the sense in spirit level (1768).

Example Sentences for spiriting

The wine was in them, and the captain commended the spiriting of it, as Prospero his Ariel.

I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.

On learning of her arrival with them, he rallied them on spiriting her off.

What was the motive or the sense in spiriting off the king in this way?

I strongly suspect him of having had a hand in spiriting away Lizzie.'

You must have done your spiriting very ungently, perhaps said something unfavourable of me.

Perhaps you have seen the history of the Dutch minister at Turin, and of the spiriting away of his daughter by the Jesuits?

Even booksellers do their spiriting more gently for good fare, and bid for an author the most spiritedly after dinner.

The city was on John Brown's "underground railway," and the spiriting of slaves through the town gave zest to public discussion.

When Dodge realised the spiriting away of Mr. Pepin, a howl, not to say a hue and cry, went up.

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