LekhoriLekhoriThe soul of a person or other creature.
[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.
A wandering spirit haunts the island.
Enthusiasm.
School spirit is at an all-time high.
To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.
I felt as if I had been spirited into some castle of felicity.
Sometimes followed by up: to animate with vigour; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit.
Ellipsis of Holy Spirit.
Around us the history of the land has centred for thrice a hundred years; out of the nation's heart we have called all that was best to throttle and subdue all that was worst; fire and blood, prayer and sacrifice, have billowed over this people, and they have found peace only in the altars of the God of Right. Nor has our gift of the Spirit been merely passive.
From Middle English spirit, from Old French espirit (“spirit”), from Latin spīritus (“breath; spirit”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys- (“to blow, breathe”). Compare inspire, respire, transpire, al...
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Civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men.