| 单词 | spirit-charmer | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasspirit-charmer  c.   With present participles, agent nouns, and (occasionally) verbal nouns, forming compounds in which spirit expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in  spirit-charmer,  spirit-crushing,  spirit-draining,  spirit-hunter,  spirit-lifting,  spirit-monger,  spirit-rousing, etc. ΚΠ 1606    J. Sylvester tr.  G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. 		(new ed.)	  ii. iii. 56  				It is the spirit-inspiring Spirit. 1650    ‘R. Burthall’ Old Bridle 16  				I say beware of these spirit-mongers; that their fair pretences, beguile you not. 1709    Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists  ii. v. 143  				In Ghostly Company of Spirit-hunters, Witch-finders [etc.]. 1777    R. Potter tr.  Æschylus Choephoræ in  tr.  Æschylus Tragedies 323  				Bitter constraint and spirit-sinking fear. 1798    S. T. Coleridge Fears in Solitude 1  				O 'tis a quiet spirit-healing nook. 1840    E. A. Poe Ligeia in  Tales of Grotesque & Arabesque I. 173  				An airy and spirit-lifting vision. 1858    T. Guthrie Christ & Inheritance Saints 		(1859)	 20  				The same spirit-freeing words. 1877    J. E. Carpenter tr.  C. P. Tiele Outl. Hist. Relig. ii. 29  				The magicians, soothsayers, and spirit-charmers. 1925    Amer. Anthropologist 27 212  				The shaman is a spirit-hunter just in the same way as the spirit is a man-hunter. 1982    N.Y. Times 		(Nexis)	 18 Apr. 16  				Witch doctor, a common translation, is far too lurid to describe the harmonious wisdom of these Spirit Diviners. 2011    N.Y. Rev. Bks. 13 Jan. 60/2  				The bureaucratization of scholarship in the humanities is simply spirit-crushing. 2015    Radio Times 9 May 		(South/West ed.)	 130/1  				It's happened to us all: getting stuck with someone who is so dull or spirit-draining that feigning a life-threatening malaise seems to be the only likely way out. < as lemmas | 
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