spirituousadj.

1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. i. 260 Especially if the vesselles bee brooken, and there growe separation of the other continued parts about them, through their vnmeasurable powring in of spirituous bloude.

1603 A. Munday tr. F. Citois True Hist. Mayden of Confolens f. 3^v But Nature hath given to all creatures one instrument of life, which is natuall heate, & that..hath his seate in the triple substance of our bodie, to wit, the solide, humorall and spirituous parts.

1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) ii. i. 88/2 This happens, when the Dugs are filled with abundance of spirituous blood.

1714 J. Purcell Treat. Cholick 91 The affusion of a more Active and Spirituous Blood upon it.

1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. vii. 30 Vineger,..in regard of..that most thin, spirituous [L. spirituosissima], sower essence of salt, doe pierce into the most inward parts.

1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode ii. i. 30 Fancy will every touch, and glance improve; And draw the most spirituous parts of Love.

1694 W. Wotton Anc. & Mod. Learning (1697) 239 The Fæculencies are separated from the more spirituous Parts, and by their Weight sink to the Bottom.

1710 D. Manley Mem. Europe I. i. 21 That little valuable spirituous Particle [sc. sincerity], that animated the Whole!

a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 302 Though the grounds are very rich, the juices of the grass are from thence less spirituous.

1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. II. xvii. 283 It is thin and clear like water, though somewhat more spirituous and viscous.

1822 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening ii. i. 194 Vegetable substances are always resinous, or oily, or spirituous, when the oxygen they contain is to the hydrogen in a smaller proportion than in water.

1901 M. Foster Lect. Hist. Physiol. 282 He thus expounds the mechanical contrivance by which the spirituous juice..can, along the same nervous channels, be made to act both from without inwards, and from within outwards.

1971 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 61 38/1 Incense made from plants, wood, minerals, and other spirituous substances.

1653 R. Brinsley Saints Communion in Two Treat. 66 Wine being of a spirituous nature, it exhilarateth the spirits.

1699 J. Evelyn Acetaria 173 Spirituous and active Force to animate and revive every Faculty and Part.

1729 G. Smith Nature Fermentation Explain'd 14 These very principles..are that which imparts the vinous and spirituous taste thereto.

1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 789 When this sap was left exposed to the air..it became milky [and]..acquired a spirituous smell and taste.

1867 F. H. Ludlow Little Briggs & I 218 The spirituous soupçon which tingles through the siropy flavors of an arrack punch.

1978 R. Rendell Sleeping Life viii. 72 Neil said he had had his dinner but, from the evidence, Wexford thought it had taken a liquid and spirituous form.

2016 Atlanta Jrnl.-Constit. (Nexis) 6 Mar. 1 e Inside the tasting room..the atmosphere was warm and cozy, even a bit giddy, as the spirituous aromas of alcohol and charred oak filled the air.

1710 J. Groeneveld Compl. Treat. Stone & Gravel ii. 39 Matter of the Stone is produc'd, the Stomach weaken'd, and its Spirituous Fermentation extinguish'd.

1758 A. Reid tr. P. J. Macquer Elements Theory & Pract. Chym. I. 128 Certain substances fall into the acetous without having gone through the spirituous fermentation.

1817 H. Koster Trav. Brazil (ed. 2) II. 377 If this [sc. the fruit] is pounded spirituous fermentation takes place with great ease, and from this passes to acetosity.

1889 Pharmaceut. Rec. 4 Nov. 333/2 Being pickled just when about to breed, the spirituous action causes the intestines [of silkworms] to swell abnormally.

1913 A. J. Nunnamaker & C. O. Dhonau Anat. & Embalming xii. 180 Spirituous fermentation is that process of fermentation by which forms of yeast cells, by their growth and reproduction in..grapes, fruit, apple juice, grains, etc., extract alcohol from these substances and by this process produce wine, cider, spirits, etc.

2003 B. J. Wittels & R. Hermesch Absinthe i. 1 Dr. Ordinaire solved his dilemma with the relatively new science of spirituous distillation.