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The theory of a preëxistence of souls before their association with human bodies. Emerson.

a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for seed; to prepare a lesson. Our souls, not yet prepared for upper light. Dryden.

rsons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name. Ps. cxlii. 7. The tyrant Æolus, . . . With power imperial, curbs the struggling winds, And sounding tempests in dark prisons binds. Dryden.

Gray. To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul. J. Burroughs.

Of or pertaining to the soul; psychical. Bayne.

r of a king and mistress of Eros, or Cupid. She is regarded as the personification of the soul.

Of or pertaining to the human soul, or to the living principle in man.

A combining form from Gr. the soul, the mind, the understanding; as, psychology.

The science of the human soul; specifically, the systematic or scientific knowledge of the powers and functions of the human soul, so far as they are known by consciousness; a treatise on the human soul. Psychology, the science conversant about the phenomena of the mind, or conscious subject, or self. Sir W. Hamilton.…

A conflict of the soul with the body.

The doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death, and does not wake until the resurrection of the body. -- Psy`cho*pan"ny*chism, n.

operation in man; the doctrine of the relation of function or dependence between body and soul.

A leader or guide of souls . J. Fiske.

Attractive moral excellence; moral beauty. By the pulchritude of their souls make up what is wanting in the beauty of their bodies. Ray.

nextended. [R.] "This punctual spot." Milton. The theory of the punctual existence of the soul. Krauth.

the Roman Catholic creed, a place, or a state believed to exist after death, in which the souls of persons are purified by expiating such offenses committed in this life as do not merit eternal damnation, or in which they fully satisfy the justice of God for sins that have been forgiven. After this purgation from the i…

drive; to push an objection too far. " To push his fortune." Dryden. Ambition pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honor to the actor. Spectator. We are pushed for an answer. Swift.

formerly, an elliptical expression for, put or suppose the case to be. Put case that the soul after departure from the body may live. Bp. Hall. -- To put about (Naut.), to turn, or change the course of, as a ship. -- To put away. (a) To renounce; to discard; to expel. (b) To divorce. -- To put back. (a) To push or t…

ay; to pacify; to cause to yield or cease; as, to quell grief; to quell the tumult of the soul. Much did his words the gentle lady quell. Spenser.

all the sparks of nature To quit this horrid act. Shak. Before that judge that quits each soul his hire. Fairfax.