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

Until the dry weeds seem more beautiful, More spiritlike than even summer's flowers.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

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 Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir

"Very well, then," he said, "the Erl-King addresses the child; Erl-King is a spirit, a ghost—so play this place in a spiritlike way, ghostly, if you will, but not ghastly with false notes!"

From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Hofmann, Josef

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 Jastrow, Morris