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Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.

Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.

Lively; cheerful; in good spirits. [Colloq. New Eng.]

Pertaining to chivalry or knight-errantry; warlike; heroic; gallant; high-spirited; high-minded; magnanimous. In brave pursuit of chivalrous emprise. Spenser.

The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry. Dryden.

Having the lower chop or jaw depressed; hence, crestfallen; dejected; dispirited;downcast. See Chapfallen.

Practical conformity of one's inward and outward life to the spirit of the Christian religion

Designating, or pertaining to, gods or spirits of the underworld; esp., relating to the underworld gods of the Greeks, whose worship is widely considered as more primitive in form than that of the Olympian gods. The characteristics of chthonian worship are propitiatory and magical rites and generalized or euphemistic n…

To purify spiritually.

Rejection of the sins of the flesh; spiritual purification, and acceptance of the Christian faith.

have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles -- . . . the spirit of a gentleman, and spirit of religion. Burke

Continual or importunate talk; prattle; prating. Whose chief intent is to vaunt his spiritual clack. South. Clack box (Mach.), the box or chamber in which a clack valve works. -- Clack dish, a dish with a movable lid, formerly carried by beggars, who clacked the lid to attract notice. Shak. Clack door (Mining), remova…

ability to hear, sounds not normally audible; -- usually claimed as a special faculty of spiritualistic mediums, or the like.

nd than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink. But not in chains to pine, His spirit withered with tyeur clank. Byron.

Of or pertaining to a clique; disposed to from cliques; exclusive in spirit. -- Cli"*quish*ness, n.

The tendency to associate in cliques; the spirit of cliques.

office; cloth. Men of his coat should be minding their prayers. Swift. She was sought by spirits of richest coat. Shak.

ng of the same essence. -- Co`es*sen"tial*ly, adv. We bless and magnify that coessential Spirit, eternally proceeding from both [The Father and the Son]. Hooker.

Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved. A cold and unconcerned spectator. T. Burnet. No cold relation is a zealous citizen. Burke.

The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion. Give color to my pale cheek. Shak.