a. [f. SPIRIT sb. + -LIKE.] Like a spirit; resembling that of a spirit.

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1644.  Digby, Nat. Bodies, xxvii. 244. Those masters … teach vs that the impressions vpon sense are made by spirituall or spiritelike things or qualities.

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1839.  Lowell, Lett. (1894), I. 41. Eyes the largest … and most spirit-like I ever dreamed of.

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1843.  Ruskin, Mod. Paint., I. II. III. iii. § 5. There is added to this [cloud-range] a spirit-like feeling.

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1852.  Bailey, Festus (ed. 5), 494. The souls of all things … ripening fast To spirit-like perfection.

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