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S — Spelling-book to Sport (Part 6 of 12)

    4. Heavy, stupid, dull, frigid, tame, prosaic, prosy, insipid, uninteresting.

Spirit of Myrcia. Bay-rum.

Spirits, n. pl.

    1. Disposition, temper, mood, humor, spirit, frame of mind, turn of mind.
    2. Distilled liquors, ardent spirits.

Spirit-stirring, a. Inspiring, animating, enlivening, cheering, exhilarating

Spiritual, a.

    1. Immaterial, incorporeal, ethereal, ghostly.
    2. Mental, intellectual, moral, ideal, abstract
    3. Holy, divine, pure, sacred.
    4. Ecclesiastical.

Spirituality, n.

    1. Immateriality.
    2. Religious function (as of the Church).
    3. Spiritual-mindedness.

Spiritualize, v. a. Purify, elevate, refine, make spiritual.

Spiritual-mindedness, n. Spirituality.

Spirituous, a.

    1. Alcoholic, ardent, spiritous.
    2. Ethereal, immaterial, intangible.
    3. Pure, active, living.

Spirituousness, n. Ardor, heat, activity, life.