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To consider worthy of esteem; to regard with honor. "I do respect thee as my soul." Shak.

to become reanimated or reinvigorated. Shak. The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into again, and he revived. 1 Kings xvii. 22.

olution; as, to revolutionize a government. Ames. The gospel . . . has revolutionized his soul. J. M. Mason.

The right side; the side opposite to the left. Led her to the Souldan's right. Spenser.

pen the judgment. When faith and love, which parted from thee never, Had ripined thy iust soul to dwell with God. Milton.

Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep. O, let me where thy roof my soul hath hid, O, let me roost and nestle there. Herbert.

To have compassion. [Obs.] God so wisly [i. e., truly] on my soul rue. Chaucer. Which stirred men's hearts to rue upon them. Ridley.

the world back to its first original. South. I would gladly understand the formation of a soul, and run it up to its "punctum saliens." Collier.

A Hindoo system of philosophy which refers all things to soul and a rootless germ called prakriti, consisting of three elements, goodness, passion, and darkness. Whitworth.

Soul. [Obs.]

the forest oaks or mountain pines. Milton. Strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul. W. Irwing.

scope." Spenser. Your scope is as mine own, So to enforce or quality the laws As to your soul seems good. Shak. The scope of all their pleading against man's authority, is to overthrow such laws and constitutions in the church. Hooker.

oral as distinguished from eternal interests; not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body; worldly. New foes arise, Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains. Milton.

anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident. But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes. DRyden.

r caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or temper. Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth. I. Watts. Whatsoever we feel and know Too sedate for outward show. Wordsworth.…

ive; motionless; sluggish; hence, calm; tranquil. [R.] "The sedentary earth." Milton. The soul, considered abstractly from its passions, is of a remiss, sedentary nature. Spectator.

ke strict inquiry after; to follow up; to persecute. [Obs.] To seek Upon a man and do his soul unrest. Chaucer.

y to seek one's own benefit or advantage. Shak. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul. Pope.

the reach Of human sense I shall delineate. Milton. The traitor Sense recalls The soaring soul from rest. Keble.

r exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.