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

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

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

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 Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

It was usually heard on cloudy evenings, a strange, unearthly, winnowing, spiritlike sound, yet easily heard at a distance of a third of a mile.

From The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by Muir, John