Obs. Also 5 spyrt, 6 spert(e. [Reduced form of SPIRIT.] = SPIRIT sb., in various senses.

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1447.  Bokenham, Seyntys (Roxb.), 9. The margaryte if of blood descende,… many spyrtys it counfortyth souvereynly.

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1541.  R. Copland, Galyen’s Terap., 2 H ij b. Yf some thing passe in the myddes of the way of the spert, yt is the ayre, forth wt it bredeth the coughe.

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1607.  Hieron, Wks., I. 569. That item which the Spirt of God giueth by the prophet.

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a. 1619.  Fotherby, Atheom., II. xiv. § 4 (1622), 357. Euery Poet is inspired, with a kind of heauenly spirt.

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1782.  Elphinston, Martial, XII. ccxi. [= III. xcvii.] 465. Let not Snow … chill this bundle of spirt [L. hunc libellum].

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