| spirit lamp | A lamp, used mainly for heating in laboratory work, in which alcohol is burned. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| spirit thermometer | A thermometer filled with alcohol, used to measure extreme degrees of cold. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spiritally | By means of the breath. Origin: L. Spiritalis belonging to breathing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spiritless | 1. Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed. 2. Destitute of vigor; wanting life, courage, or fire. "A men so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in lock, so woebegone." (Shak) 3. Having no breath; extinct; dead. "The spiritless body." Spir"itlessly, Spir"itlessness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spiritualism | 1. The quality or state of being spiritual. 2. <physiology> The doctrine, in opposition to the materialists, that all which exists is spirit, or soul that what is called the external world is either a succession of notions impressed on the mind by the Deity, as maintained by Berkeley, or else the mere educt of the mind itself, as taught by Fichte. 3. A belief that departed spirits hold intercourse with mortals by means of physical phenomena, as by rappng, or during abnormal mental states, as in trances, or the like, commonly manifested through a person of special susceptibility, called a medium; spiritism; the doctrines and practices of spiritualists. "What is called spiritualism should, I think, be called a mental species of materialism." (R. H. Hutton) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spiritualist | 1. One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic. 2. One who maintains the doctrine of spiritualism. 3. One who believes in direct intercourse with departed spirits, through the agency of persons commonly called mediums, by means of physical phenomena; one who attempts to maintain such intercourse; a spiritist. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spirituality | Origin: L. Spiritualitas: cf. F. Spiritualite. 1. The quality or state of being spiritual; incorporeality; heavenly-mindedness. "A pleasure made for the soul, suitable to its spirituality." (South) "If this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth nearest to spirituality." (Sir W. Raleigh) "Much of our spirituality and comfort in public worship depends on the state of mind in which we come." (Bickersteth) 2. That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities. "During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof." (Blackstone) 3. An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality. "Five entire subsidies were granted to the king by the spirituality." (Fuller) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spiritualize | 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. "This seen in the clear air, and the whole spiritualized by endless recollections, fills the eye and the heart more forcibly than I can find words to say." (Carlyle) 2. To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; opposed to literalize. 3. <chemistry> To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. Origin: Cf. F. Spiritualiser. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spiritualty | An ecclesiastical body; a spirituality. See: Spirituality. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spirituous | Containing alcohol in large amount, denoting liquors. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spirituous liquor | A strong alcoholic liquor obtained by distillation, such as whiskey. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spiritus | Synonym: spirit. Origin: L. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spiro compounds | A group of compounds consisting in part of two rings sharing one carbon atom in common. (12 Dec 1998) |
| spiro- | 1. Coil, coil-shaped. Origin: G. Speira 2. Breathing. Origin: L. Spiro, to breathe (05 Mar 2000) |
| spiro-index | Vital capacity divided by the height of the individual. (05 Mar 2000) |