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spirituous, a.|ˈspɪrɪtjuːəs|
[f. L. spīritu-s + -ous, or ad. F. spiritueux (16th c.), Sp. and Pg. espirituoso.]
1. Spirited, animated, lively, vivacious. Now rare.
1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. iii. ii, Well, I am resolv'd what Ile doe.—What my good spirituous sparke? 1703J. Savage Lett. Antients xlv. 109 The Greeks, who are a spirituous and wise People, not to be us'd as the barbarous Nations are by their Tyrants. 1709Phil. Trans. XXVII. 74 A very Vivacious and Spirituous Animal. 1751Eliza Heywood Betsy Thoughtless II. 10 Her once gay and spirituous behaviour..was now become all dull and gloomy. 1888Doughty Arab. Des. I. 593 The Emir in his spirituous humour, and haughty familiar manners.
2. Of the nature of, having the properties of, spirit; containing spirit or volatile principle in a natural state. (Freq. in 17th cent.)
1605Timme Quersit. i. vii. 30 Vineger,..in regard of..that most thin, spirituous, sower essence of salt, doe pierce into the most inward parts. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 88 If the matter be spirituous, and the cloud compact, the noise is great and terrible. 1694W. Wotton Anc. & Mod. Learn. (1697) 239 The Fæculencies are separated from the more spirituous Parts, and by their Weight sink to the Bottom. a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 302 Though the grounds are very rich, the juices of the grass are from thence less spirituous. 1737Bracken Farriery Impr. (1757) II. 185 Oats and Beans is a more warm and spirituous Feed than Hay. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. II. xvii. 264 It is thin and clear like water, though somewhat more spirituous and viscous. 1837P. Keith Bot. Lex. 306 Vegetable substances are always resinous, or oily, or spirituous, when the oxygen which they contain is to the hydrogren in a smaller proportion than in water.
fig.1673Dryden Marr. à la Mode ii. i, Fancy will every touch and glance improve, And draw the most spirituous parts of love. 1705J. Dunton Life & Err. vii. (1818) I. 275 My happiness was too spirituous and fine to continue long. 1709Mrs. Manley Secret Mem. (1720) III. 29 That little valuable spirituous Particle [sc. sincerity], that animated the Whole!
3. Containing or impregnated with spirit or alcohol obtained by distillation; containing an infusion of alcohol; alcoholic; ardent.
1681tr. Belon's New Myst. Physick Introd. 10 Medicine must be invited.., by refined and spirituous Medicaments, to procure Preservation. 1694Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 46/2 Cover and lute it, and distil S.A. so will you have a spirituous Water. 1742tr. Algarotti's Newton's The. II. 194 They were obliged to cut the most spirituous Wine with a Hatchet. 1767Gooch Treat. Wounds I. 246 Spirituous, warm, subtile medicines are to be used. 1813T. Thomson Lect. Inflam. 605 Spirituous and resinous substances have long been in repute for the cure of burns. 1857Miller Elem. Chem., Org. vii. §2. 503 The spirituous varnishes dry the most rapidly. 1867J. Hogg Microsc. i. ii. 142 Dropping into it carefully..a spirituous solution of iodine.
b. Freq. in spirituous liquor(s).
1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet in Aliments, etc. i. 245 Strong Waters or Spirituous Liquors contract and harden the solid Parts most of all. 1764Burn Poor Laws 242 As the laws stand, a licence from the officers of excise alone, for retailing spirituous liquors, is not sufficient. 1815J. Smith Panorama Science & Art II. 88 When the instrument is immersed in spirituous liquor. 1836Thirlwall Greece xiv. II. 197 The modern Tartars extract a spirituous liquor from the milk of their mares. 1862Trollope N. Amer. I. xvii. 377 No wine or spirituous liquors may be used.
4. Of or belonging to spirit or alcohol; like or resembling that of spirit.
1667Phil. Trans. II. 496 The Thames-water..in eight months time..acquires a Spirituous quality, so as to burn like Spirit of Wine. 1699Evelyn Acetaria (1729) 167 Spirituous and active Force to animate and revive every Faculty and Part. 1838T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 789 When this sap was left exposed to the air..it became milky [and]..acquired a spirituous smell and taste. 1862Miller Elem. Chem., Org. (ed. 2) 155 Wood spirit is a limpid, inflammable, colourless liquid, of a penetrating spirituous odour. 1867F. H. Ludlow Little Briggs 218 The spirituous soupçon which tingles through the siropy flavors of an arrack punch.
b. Accomplished or carried out by means of spirit or alcohol.
1800tr. Lagrange's Chem. II. 167 There are reckoned to be three kinds of fermentation: spirituous, acetous, and putrid.
†5. = spiritual a. 4. Obs.
1662R. Mathew Unl. Alch. 60 When thy now rotting body is destroyed, thou again shalt receive a spirituous body. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 785 The Irrational Part or Life thereof, is Separable only from this Gross Body..; but hath (after Death) a Spirituous or Aiery Body. 1727De Foe Hist. Appar. iv. (1840) 30 Such inhabitants as are spirituous, and invisible. 1745Eliza Heywood Female Spect. No. 15 (1748) III. 120 As great an enemy as indolence is to our spirituous part, activity in things unfit is yet much more so.
†6. Spiritual, in various senses. Obs.
a1631Donne Serm. (1634) iv. 7 God gives not his people..valour, and then leaves them to a spirituous quarrelsomenesse. 1712W. King Joan of Hedington Pref., Wks. 1776 III. 11 She seems spirituous, and..not disinclinable to virtuous courses. 1727Warburton Prodigies & Miracles i. 54 What then must we expect from this spirituous Imposture; which persuades the credulous Reader that the Soul of History is here disingaged from the unweildy..Carcasses of Chronicle and Annal?
Hence ˈspirituously adv., † in a spirited manner.
1751Eliza Heywood Betsy Thoughtless IV. 52 ‘Bless me, madam!’ cried Mrs. Munden, spirituously, ‘would your ladyship have me give up..that slender pittance?’ |