释义 |
spirit-like, a. [f. spirit n. + -like.] Like a spirit; resembling that of a spirit.
1644Digby Nat. Bodies xxvii. 244 Those masters..teach vs that the impressions vpon sense are made by spirituall or spiritelike things or qualities. 1839Lowell Lett. (1894) I. 41 Eyes the largest..and most spirit-like I ever dreamed of. 1843Ruskin Mod. Paint. I. ii. iii. iii. §5 There is added to this [cloud-range] a spirit-like feeling. 1852Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 494 The souls of all things..ripening fast To spirit-like perfection. |