释义 |
spirit-stirring, a. [spirit n.] That stirs or animates the spirits; spirit-rousing.
1604Shakes. Oth. iii. iii. 352 The Spirit-stirring Drum, th' Eare-piercing Fife. 1740Dyer Ruins Rome 102 The spirit-stirring form Of Caesar, raptur'd with the charm of rule. 1741–2Gray Agrippina 124 There will not want..ears to own Her spirit-stirring voice. 1794Godwin Caleb Williams 158 The haziness of the morning was followed by a spirit-stirring and beautiful day. 1807Edin. Rev. X. 385 All spirit-stirring topics will surely fail. 1861G. F. Berkeley Eng. Sportsman xiv. 241 Conveying to me a spirit-stirring information. 1886T. Michell Scot. Exped. to Norway i. i. 12 The spirit-stirring poem by Edvard Storm. |