spiritlike
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According to Hahnemann, the vigorous shaking transferred the "spiritlike" essence of the medicine to the solvent.
From Time Magazine Archive
Below her a river of early sunshine was flowing through the garden, and the far-away slopes were translucent green in their splendour of young day, with gauzy, uncertain mists lingering, spiritlike, in their intervales.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
But there were few indeed among all the kindred of earth, air, and water whose hunting was so savage and so ravenous as that of these slender and spiritlike beings.
From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
This specialization of functions is possibly in part an elevation of the old scheme of spirits according to which every object in the world was conceived of as inhabited or controlled by some spiritlike being.
From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Morris Jastrow
Sprightly, spiritlike, refers to light, free, cheerful activity of mind and body.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
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