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单词 animal spirit
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animal spiritn.

Brit. /ˌanᵻml ˈspɪrɪt/, U.S. /ˌænəm(ə)l ˈspɪrᵻt/
Forms: see animal adj. and spirit n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; perhaps partly modelled on a Latin lexical item, or perhaps partly modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: animal adj., spirit n.
Etymology: < animal adj. + spirit n., in sense 1 after either post-classical Latin spiritus animalis (a1250, 1620 in British sources) or Middle French esprit animal (14th cent.). With sense 1 compare animal adj. 1a. With senses 2 and 3 compare animal adj. 2.
1.
a. Medicine and Physiology. The (supposed) agent responsible for sensation and movement, originating in the brain and passing to and from the periphery of the body through the nerves; nervous action or force. Now historical.In later use usually in plural.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > source or principle of life > vital principle > [noun]
souleOE
lifeOE
spiritusOE
bloodOE
ghostOE
life and soulOE
quickship?c1225
quicknessc1230
breatha1300
spirita1325
spark1382
naturec1385
sparkle1388
livelinessa1398
rational soula1398
spiracle1398
animal spirit?a1425
vital spiritc1450
soul of the world1525
candle1535
fire1576
three souls1587
vitality?1592
candlelight1596
substance1605
vivacity1611
animality1615
vividity1616
animals1628
life spring1649
archeus1651
vital1670
spirituosity1677
springs of life1681
microcosmetor1684
vital force1702
vital spark (also flame)1704
stamen1718
vis vitae1752
prana1785
Purusha1785
jiva1807
vital force1822
heartbeat1828
world-soul1828
world-spirit1828
life energy1838
life force1848
ghost soul1869
will to live1871
biogen1882
ki1893
mauri1897
élan vital1907
orgone1942
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 11 (MED) Bi elaboracioun of þe spirit uitale is made þe animale [v.r. spiritus animalis].
a1500 (c1477) T. Norton Ordinal of Alchemy (BL Add.) (1975) l. 2386 (MED) The spirite vitalle in þe herte dothe dwelle; The spirite natural..To dwel in the lyver is..fayne, But spirite animal dwellith in the brayne.
1543 B. Traheron Interpr. Straunge Wordes in tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. sig. §§.iii/2 Physitions teache that there ben thre kindes of spirites, animal, vital, & naturall. The animal spirite hath his seate in the brayne, and is spredde in to all the bodye by synnowes, gyuyng facultie of mouynge, and felynge. It is called animal, bycause it is the first instrument of the soule, whych the latines call animam.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 53 Al my spreitis vital ande animal.
1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. To Rdr. sig. a8 The braine for the Animall spirite, the heart for the Vitall, and the liuer for the Naturall.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 348 Those conducts through which the spirits annimall doe giue feeling and mouing to the body.
a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) iv. ix. 116 That part of the Brain from whence all those Nerves that conduct the Animal spirits up and down the Body take their first Original.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 805 If..he might taint Th' animal Spirits that from pure blood arise. View more context for this quotation
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. iv. iv. 213 Animal Spirits..are the Messengers, which running to and fro in the Nerves, preserve a Communication between the Soul and outward Objects.
1777 J. Priestley Disquis. Matter & Spirit xvi. 217 The doctrine of animal spirits.
1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! III. i. 2 The doctor talked mere science, or nonscience, about humours, complexions, and animal spirits.
1881 Science 29 Oct. 510/2 (note) This is communicated to the pore by the thread and causes it to open, the consequence of which is that the ‘animal spirit’ contained in the ventricular cavity enters the tube and is conveyed by it to the muscles.
1901 M. Foster Lect. Hist. Physiol. 268 If we substitute in place of the subtle fluid of the animal spirits, the molecular changes which we call a nervous impulse.., Descartes' exposition will not appear so wholly different from the one which we give to-day.
2000 Isis 91 427/2 Sutton traces the ancestry of distributed connectionist models back to Descartes, showing the place of his brain theory in the much older tradition of animal spirits coursing through the pores of the brain.
b. figurative. In plural. Nerves, sinews. Obsolete. rare.Cf. ‘sinews of war’.
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the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > strengthening or confirmation of immaterial things > [noun] > a source or means of > strength or force behind war, state, nation, etc.
sinew1560
nerves1598
animal spirit1719
stamina1779
brawn1883
1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade (ed. 2) 295 The Increase of our Foreign Trade..whence has arisen all those Animal Spirits, those Springs of Riches which has enabled us to spend so many millions for the preservation of our Liberties.
2. In plural. Nerve; physical or ‘animal’ courage. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > courage > spirit > nerve > [noun]
bravour1695
animal spirits1696
nerve1809
moxie1930
1696 T. D'Urfey Comical Hist. Don Quixote: 3rd Pt. i. ii. 16 Dinner will strangely dull thy Animal Spirits, which I shall presently have occasion for... Within this Hour..thou and I must fight with all this Company.
1700 Hicks in Pepys Corr. 372 Sights..which others of more passive tempers, and a less stock of animal spirits, could not so well endure.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 53 That the Surprise may not drive the Animal Spirits from the Heart.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. xlvi. 111 The player, who had more animal spirits, and less prudence, than Slyboot,..jogged Mr. Bragwell..and threatened to cudgel him.
3. In plural. Nervous vivacity, natural liveliness of disposition; healthy physicality.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [noun] > cheerful liveliness
taitea1400
lightsomeness?a1425
alacritya1460
life1583
sprightfulness1602
airiness1628
alacriousness1657
animal spirits1701
spirits1716
chirpiness1867
form1877
chipperness1887
1701 S. Parker Sylva 211 Old People should not be so generally obnoxious to Scepticism as Young... A Spring-tide of Animal Spirits easily overflows the Judgment before it's grown up.
1739 J. Wesley Jrnl. 13 June in Extract of Jrnl. (1742) 59 Blaspheming His Work among us, imputing it either to Nature, to the Force of Imagination and Animal Spirits, or even to the Delusion of the Devil.
1792 Edelfrida I. 16 The manners are tinctured with that thoughtless levity which is often only the offspring of great animal spirits.
1813 J. Austen Pride & Prejudice I. ix. 100 She had high animal spirits . View more context for this quotation
1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby I. i. v. 57 He..had great animal spirits, and a keen sense of enjoyment.
1847 C. Brontë Let. 14 Dec. (1955) I. 574 Nor do I possess..those unflagging animal spirits..which..is an indispensable requisite to success.
a1903 S. Butler Way of All Flesh (1916) vii. 33 At school he was..too dull and deficient in animal spirits to be popular.
1930 A. Christie Murder at Vicarage ii. 15 Miss Cram is a healthy young woman,..noisy in manner, with a high colour, fine animal spirits and a mouth that always seems to have more than its fair share of teeth.
1961 D. Craig Sc. Lit. & Sc. People, 1680–1830 i. 28 The amazing energy and animal spirits of the common people.
1996 J. Lanchester Debt to Pleasure (1997) 65 The upsurge in animal spirits that accompanies the onset of spring.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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