Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Ensouled; endowed with a soul.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of besoul.

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Examples

  • From all this it follows that soul is an actuality or formulable essence of something that possesses a potentiality of being besouled.

    On the Soul 2002

  • Since nothing except what is alive can be fed, what is fed is the besouled body and just because it has soul in it.

    On the Soul 2002

  • The difference between animate and inanimate bodies is identical with the difference between besouled bodies and bodies lacking souls.

    The Angels and Us Mortimer J. Adler 1982

  • Since nothing except what is alive can be fed, what is fed is the besouled body and just because it has soul in it.

    ON THE SOUL Aristotle 1935

  • Its ghost, in the many textbooks devoted to it, lacks just the quality of logic which made and besouled it.

    Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885

  • Richter reasons as follows: "Suppose a statue besouled for two days.

    The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

  • Let's get on top of a surfboard and ride it "-- while many fans felt cheated by the early reveal that Buffy's former one true love, the besouled vampire Angel, was behind the mask of her current foe.

    ComicsAlliance.com 2010

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