Definitions
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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
spirit . - noun plurale tantum distilled alcoholic beverages.
- noun Plural form of
spirit .
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- noun an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented
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Examples
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Before reaching that organ they divided up into minute channels, the _rete mirabile_ (πλεγμα μεγιστον θαυμα {plegma megiston thauma}), and passing into the brain became converted by the action of that organ into a yet higher type of spirits, the _animal spirits_ (πνευμα ψυχικον
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Purchased one liter of neutral grain spirits from the corner store.
How to make elderberry tincture | Radical Futures Project 2010
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If you put a light to it, it burns with a bright flame, and it is that substance which we know as spirits of wine.
Essays 2007
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I am sure I don't wish to be troubled with him, till he has got rid of what you call his spirits; but what are you to do with such a pickle as this?
Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) 1867
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If you put a light to it, it burns with a bright flame, and it is that substance which we know as spirits of wine.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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If you put a light to it, it burns with a bright flame, and it is that substance which we know as spirits of wine.
Yeast Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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The alchemists believed that the volatile essences (what they called spirits) of a substance can be distilled.
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The alchemists believed that the volatile essences (what they called spirits) of a substance can be distilled.
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Other things that bugged me: Tonane (the helpful indigenous person) seems to be continually hopped up on peyote or maybe just high on life; the ultimate explanation for the 'spirits' is obvious very early on and with just a quick conversation with Jack, all is well!
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Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
brobbins commented on the word spirits
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July 23, 2009