a. [SPIRIT sb.] That stirs or animates the spirits; spirit-rousing.
1604. Shaks., Oth., III. iii. 352. The Spirit-stirring Drum, th’ Eare-piercing Fife.
1740. Dyer, Ruins Rome, 102. The spirit-stirring form Of Cæsar, raptur’d with the charm of rule.
1741–2. Gray, Agrippina, 124. There will not want … ears to own Her spirit-stirring voice.
1794. Godwin, Caleb Williams, 158. The haziness of the morning was followed by a spirit-stirring and beautiful day.
1807. Edin. Rev., X. 385. All spirit-stirring topics will surely fail.
1861. G. F. Berkeley, Sportsm. W. Prairies, xiv. 241. Conveying to me a spirit-stirring information.
1886. T. Michell, Scot. Exped. to Norway, I. i. 12. The spirit-stirring poem by Edvard Storm.
