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To dispirit. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.

To deprive of spiritually. South.

Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. "Base and abject flatterers." Addison. "An abject liar." Macaulay. And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak.

A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. That this should be termed baseness, abjection of mind, or servility, is it credible Hooker.

An omen. [Obs.] High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes. Chapman.

A strong spirituous liqueur made from wormwood and brandy or alcohol.

ce, any deep, immeasurable, and, specifically, hell, or the bottomless pit. Ye powers and spirits of this nethermost abyss. Milton. The throne is darkness, in the abyss of light. Dryden.

Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.

iquid consisting of three parts of carbon, six of hydrogen, and one of oxygen; pyroacetic spirit, -- obtained by the distillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime.

Having a sour taste; sour; acid. "An acetous spirit." Boyle. "A liquid of an acetous kind." Bp. Lowth.

Movement; as, the horse has a spirited action.

Without action or spirit. [R.]

rection; opposed; contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste.

ced by or found in the air; performed in the air; as, aërial regions or currents. "Aërial spirits." Milton. "Aërial voyages." Darwin.

. As might affect the earth with cold heat. Milton. The climate affected their health and spirits. Macaulay.

A superior spiritual relationship or attraction held to exist sometimes between persons, esp. persons of the opposite sex; also, the man or woman who exerts such psychical or spiritual attraction.

e in history, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age, the age of Pericles. "The spirit of the age." Prescott. Truth, in some age or other, will find her witness. Milton. Archeological ages are designated as three: The Stone age (the early and the later stone age, called paleolithic and neolithic), the Bronze…

Spirit level. See Level.

Lightness of spirits; gayety; levity; as, the airiness of young persons.

Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike. "An airy spirit." Shak.