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To make more than human; to purity; to elevate above humanity. [R.] Souls purified by sorrow and self-denial, transhumanized to the divine abstraction of pure contemplation. Lowell.

The passing of the soul at death into another mortal body; metempsychosis.

w, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul. [They] laugh as if transported with some fit Of passion. Milton. We shall then be transported with a nobler . . . wonder. South.

Any evidence or memorial of victory or conquest; as, every redeemed soul is a trophy of grace.

urb; to perplex; to afflict; to distress; to grieve; to fret; to annoy; to vex. Now is my soul troubled. John xii. 27. Take the boy to you; he so troubles me 'T is past enduring. Shak. Never trouble yourself about those faults which age will cure. Locke.

a trafficker. No man having ever yet driven a saving bargain with this great trucker for souls. South.

t; disturbance; worrying confusion. And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil, A blessed soul doth in Elysium. Shak.

To free from the body; to disembody. Her soul unbodied of the burdenous corse. Spenser.

The king himself the sacred unction made. Dryden. Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. Shak.

ction. 1 Cor. ix. 27. The minstrel fell, but the foeman's chain Could not bring his proud soul under. Moore.

The mythological place of departed souls; Hades.

One of a class of fabled female water spirits who might receive a human soul by intermarrying with a mortal.

Not dying; imperishable; unending; immortal; as, the undying souls of men.

Restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety, or the like; disquieted; perturbed. The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. Pope.

to associate; to attach. Under his great vicegerent reign abide, United as one individual soul. Milton. The king proposed nothing more than to unite his kingdom in one form of worship. Clarendon.

as that could withstand so many years the Roman puissance. Milton. Thou hast fired me; my soul's up in arms. Dryden. Grief and passion are like floods raised in little brooks by a sudden rain; they are quickly up. Dryden. A general whisper ran among the country people, that Sir Roger was up. Addison. Let us, then, be u…

atter. Bentley. God . . . alone can answer all our longings and fill every vacuity of our soul. Rogers.

To wander; to roam; to stray. [Obs.] "[The soul] doth vague and wander." Holland.

The palace of immortality, inhabited by the souls of heroes slain in battle.

A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730. The persons wh…