SPIRIT
Spirit
The English word spirit has many differing meanings and connotations, most of them relating to a non-corporeal substance contrasted with the material body. The word spirit is often used metaphysically to refer to the consciousness or personality. The notions of a person's spirit and soul often also overlap, as both contrast with body and both are understood as surviving the bodily death in religion and occultism, and "spirit" can also have the sense of "ghost", i.e. a manifestation of the spirit of a deceased person.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Spirit
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spirit
Noun
- The undying essence of a human; the soul.
- A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.
- A wandering spirit haunts the island.
- Enthusiasm.
- The manner or style of something.
- A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term for distilled alcoholic beverages.
- Energy; ardour.
- One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper.
- a ruling spirit; a schismatic spirit
- Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; often in the plural.
- to be cheerful, or in good spirits; to be down-hearted, or in bad spirits
- Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
- A rough breathing; an aspirate, such as the letter h; also, a mark denoting aspiration.
- Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.
- the spirit of an enterprise, or of a document
- Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
- stannic chloride
Verb
- To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.
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