a. Also 6 soulisch, sowlish. [f. SOUL sb. + -ISH.]

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  1.  Of or pertaining to, characterized or distinguished by, the soul, esp. in its lower or less spiritual aspects (= PSYCHICAL a. 2).

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c. 1550.  Cheke, Matt. xii. 17. Calling ye principal part bi ye name of ye hoole, which Saint Poul to ye Corinthes called ye soulisch man, which can not perceiue thinges belonging to god.

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1554[?].  Coverdale, Hope of Faithful, xvi. (1574), 133. Thus Paule calleth ‘Animale corpus’ the soulish body, which is interpreted ye natural body.

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1649.  J. Ellistone, trans. Warning fr. J. Boehme, § 29. 19. The Highest Tongue,… which through the wisedome doth … reveale to every one, in his eternal soulish Constelation, according to the … measure as he pleaseth.

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1662.  Sparrow, trans. Boehme’s Rem. Wks., Apol. conc. Perf., 138. This soulish property hath the Name Jesus receiv’d to it selfe.

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1752.  W. Law, Spirit of Love, I. (1816), 52. The entrance of the Deity into the properties of your own soulish life.

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1786.  A. Maclean, Comm. Christ, II. (1847), 111. Such are termed … soulish, animal, or sensual.

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1865.  Maurice, Conflict Good & Evil, 33. He will understand St. Paul’s contempt for the mere soulish man, his sympathy with the spiritual man.

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1886.  J. Pulsford, Divine Genius in Nature & Man, 27. The soulish body … begins more rapidly to be purified from all the remains of its fleshly defilement.

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  2.  Of the nature of the soul; soul-like. rare.

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1581.  Mulcaster, Positions, vi. (1887), 48. A part of mans bodie … which breedeth a sowlish, and life spirite.

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1662.  Sparrow, trans. Boehme’s Rem. Wks., Complex., 4. The Complexion in the Souls Fire becometh Soulish, or like the Soul.

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