Word Meanings - MARA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The principal or ruling evil spirit. E. Arnold.
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- PRINCIPALNESS
The quality of being principal. - SPIRITUOUS
1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent; - PRINCIPALITY
preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory. - SPIRITUALIZE
To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize - SPIRITUOSITY
The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness. - SPIRITUAL-MINDED
Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n. - SPIRITISM
Spiritualsm. - SPIRIT
Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors. (more info) 1. Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself. "All of spirit would deprive." Spenser. - SPIRITUALISTIC
Relating to, or connected with, spiritualism. - SPIRITUOUSNESS
The quality or state of being spirituous. Boyle. - RULELESS
Destitute of rule; lawless. Spenser. - SPIRITUAL
1. Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. 1 Cor. xv. - RULING
1. Predominant; chief; reigning; controlling; as, a ruling passion; a ruling sovereign. 2. Used in marking or engraving lines; as, a ruling machine or pen. Syn. -- Predominant; chief; controlling; directing; guilding; governing; prevailing; - SPIRITOUS
1. Like spirit; refined; defecated; pure. More refined, more spirituous and pure. Milton. 2. Ardent; active. - RULE-MONGER
A stickler for rules; a slave of rules Hare. - SPIRITUALIZATION
The act of spiritualizing, or the state of being spiritualized. - RULINGLY
In a ruling manner; so as to rule. - SPIRITUALIZER
One who spiritualizes. - RULY
orderly; easily restrained; -- opposed to Ant: unruly. Gascoigne. - RULER
1. One who rules; one who exercises sway or authority; a governor. And he made him ruler over all the land. Gen. xii. 43. A prince and ruler of the land. Shak. 2. A straight or curved strip of wood, metal, etc., with a smooth edge, used for guiding - PUBLIC-SPIRITED
1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly, - OVERRULING
Exerting controlling power; as, an overruling Providence. -- O`ver*rul"ing*ly, adv. - FERULIC
Pertaining to, or derived from, asafetida ; as, ferulic acid. - CHONDRULE
A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imdedded more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites. - DISPIRITED
Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n. - PURULENCE; PURULENCY
The quality or state of being purulent; the generation of pus; also, the pus itself. Arbuthnot. - TORULA
A chain of special bacteria. A genus of budding fungi. Same as Saccharomyces. Also used adjectively. - SERRULATION
1. The state of being notched minutely, like a fine saw. Wright. 2. One of the teeth in a serrulate margin. - VIRULENCE; VIRULENCY
1. The quality or state of being virulent or venomous; poisonousness; malignancy. 2. Extreme bitterness or malignity of disposition. "Refuted without satirical virulency." Barrow. The virulence of one declaimer, or the profundities and sublimities - DISSPIRIT
See DISPIRIT - SERRULA
The red-breasted merganser. - GASTRULA
An embryonic form having its origin in the invagination or pushing in of the wall of the planula or blastula on one side, thus giving rise to a double-walled sac, with one opening or mouth which leads into the cavity (the archenteron) lined by - TRULLIZATION
The act of laying on coats of plaster with a trowel. - FERULACEOUS
Pertaining to reeds and canes; having a stalk like a reed; as, ferulaceous plants.