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ng in, or upon, as an addition to something. Long custom of sinning superinduces upon the soul new and absurd desires. South.

luence; readily acted upon; as, a body susceptible of color or of alteration. It sheds on souls susceptible of light, The glorious dawn of our eternal day. Young.

es and great men. A sycophant will everything admire: Each verse, each sentence, sets his soul on fire. Dryden.

The doctrine or theory, attributed to Melanchthon, that in the regeneration of a human soul there is a coöperation, or joint agency, on the part both of God and of man.

Figuratively: The human body, as the temporary abode of the soul.

citing kind concern; dear; precious. I love Valentine, Whose life's as tender to me as my soul! Shak.

Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation. Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece Locke. Tenement house, commonly, a dwelling house erected for the purpose of being rented, and divided into separate apartments or tenements for families. The term is often…

An intimate union of the soul with God in contemplation, -- an ideal of the Neoplatonists and of some Oriental mystics.

which treats of the being, perfections, and government of God, and the immortality of the soul. Krauth-Fleming.

To have a vehement desire. My soul thirsteth for . . . the living God. Ps. xlii. 2.

art and arteries; a violent beating; a papitation: The IMPATIENT throbs and longings of a soul That pants and reaches after distant good. Addison.

An effort; a violent sally. [Obs.] Your youth admires The throws and swellings of a Roman soul. Addison.

y rising and falling, or following and ebbing; as, tidal waters. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares. Longfellow. Tidal air (Physiol.), the air which passes in and out of the lungs in ordinary breathing. It varies from twenty to thirty cubic inches.…

anything foreign to; to tinge. The stain of habitual sin may thoroughly tincture all our soul. Barrow.

Tenth. [Obs.] Every tithe soul, 'mongst many thousand. Shak.

The doctrine that human souls are produced by the act of generation; -- opposed to creationism, and infusionism.

scent; propagation. [R.] If by traduction came thy mind, Our wonder is the less to find A soul so charming from a stock so good. Dryden.

A state in which the soul seems to have passed out of the body into another state of being, or to be rapt into visions; an ecstasy. And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance. Acts. x. 10. My soul was ravished quite as in a trance. Spenser.

To animate with a soul conveyed from another body. [R.] Bp. J. King (1608).

The conveyance of a soul from one body to another. [R.] Fuller.