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talk much of communion with God. Calamy. —Not tem¬ 
poral ; relating to the things of heaven; ecclesiastical. 
Thou art reverend, 
Touching thy spiritual function, not thy life. Shakspeare. 
SPI'RITUALIST, s. One who professes regard to spi¬ 
ritual things only; one whose employment is spiritual.— 
May not he that lives in a small thatched house—preach as 
loud, and to as much purpose, as' one of those high and 
mighty spiritualists ? Echard. 
SPIRITUA'LITY, s. Incorporeity ; immateriality; essence 
distinct from matter.—If this light be not spiritual, yet it 
approacheth nearest unto spirituality ; and if it have any 
corporality, then of all other the most subtile and pure. 
Ralegh. — Intellectual nature.—A pleasure made for the 
soul, suitable to its spirituality, and equal to all its capaci¬ 
ties. South. —Acts independent of the body; pure acts of 
the soul; mental refinement.—Many secret indispositions 
and aversions to duty, will steal upon the soul, and it will 
require both time and close application of mind, to recover 
it to such a frame, as shall dispose it for the spiritualities of 
Religion. South. —That which belongs to any one as an 
ecclesiatic.—Of common right, the dean and chapter are 
guardians of the spiritualities, during the vacancy of a 
bishopric. Ayliffe. 
SPIRITUALITY, .5. Ecclesiastical body. Not in use. 
We of the spirituality 
Will raise your highness such a mighty sum, 
As never did the clergy at one time. Shakspeare. 
SPIRITUALIZA'TION, s. The act of spiritualizing.— 
[In old Chemistry.] The action of extracting spirits from 
natural bodies. Chambers. 
To SPI'RITUALIZE, v. a. [spiritualiser, Fr.] To 
refine the intellect; to purify from the feculencies of the 
world.'—We begin our survey from the lowest dregs of 
sense, and so ascend to our more spiritualized selves. 
Glanville. —To extract spirits from natural bodies.—Spirits 
of wine is sometimes spiritualized to that degree, that upon 
throwing a quantity into the air, not a drop shall fall down, 
but the whole evaporate, and be lost. Chambers. 
SPFRITUALLY, ado. Without corporeal grossness; with 
attention to things purely intellectual.—In the same degree 
that virgins live more spiritually than other persons, in the 
same degree is their virginity a more excellent state. Bishop 
Taylor. 
SPPRITUOUS, ad/. [ spiriteux, Fr.] Having the qua¬ 
lity of spirit, tenuity and activity of parts.—The most 
spirituous and most fragrant part of the plant exhales 
by the action of the sun. Arbuthnot. —Lively ; gay ; 
vivid; airy: applied both to persons and things.—It may 
appear airy and spirituous, and fit for the welcome of chear- 
ful guests. Wotton. —Ardent; inflammable; as spirituous 
liquors. 
SPIRITUO'SITY, or Spi'rituousness, s, The quality 
of being spirituous; tenuity and activity. 
To SPIRT, v. n. [ Sprout is the past participle of the 
Sax. j-pycan, to shoot out, to cast forth : spurt is the same 
word by a customary metathesis. H. Tooke.] To spring 
out in a sudden stream; to stream out by intervals.—Bottling 
of beer, while new and full of spirit, so that it spirteth when 
the stopple is taken forth, maketh the drink more quick and 
windy. Bacon. 
To SPIRT, v. a. To throw out in a jet. 
When weary Proteus 
Retir’d for shelter to his wonted caves. 
His finny flocks about their shepherd play. 
And howling round him, spirt, the bitter sea. Dryden. 
SPIRT, s. Sudden ejection; sudden and short effort; a 
fit. 
What, old hoorson, art thou a chiding? 
I will play a spyrt, why should I not ? 
What hast thou to do, and if I lose my cote ? 
I will 1 trill the bones while I have one grote. 
Old Morality of Lusty Juventus. 
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To SPI'RTLE, v. a. To shoot scatteringly.—The terra- 
queous globe would, by the centrifugal force of that motion; 
be soon dissipated and spirtled into the circumambient 
space, was is not kept together by this noble contrivance of 
the Creator. Dcrham. 
SPFRY, adj. Pyramidal. 
In these lone walls their days eternal bound. 
These moss-grown domes with spiry turrrets crown’d. 
Where awful arches make a noon-day night, 
And the dim windows shed a solemn light; 
Thy eyes diffus’d a reconciling ray. 
And gleams of glory brighten’d all the day. 
Wreathed ; curled. 
Hid in the spiry volumes of the snake, 
I lurk’d within the covert of a brake. 
SPISS, adj. [spissus, Lat.] Close; firm; thick. Not iff 
use. —From his modest and humble charity, virtues which 
rarely cohabit with the swelling windiness of much know¬ 
ledge, issued this spiss and dense, yet polish’d ; this copious, 
yet concise treatise of the variety of languages. Brereivood. 
SPI'SSITUDE, s. [from spissus, Lat.] Grossness; thick¬ 
ness.— Spissitude is subdued by acrid things, and acrimony 
by inspissating. Arbuthnot. 
SPIT, s. [ppitu, Sax.; spit, Dutch; spedo, Ital.] A 
long prong on which meat is driven to be turned before the 
fire. 
A goodly city is this Antium; 
’Tis I that made thy widows: then know me not, . 
Lest that thy wives with spits, and boys with stones, 
In puny battle slay me. Shakspeare. 
Such a depth of earth as is pierced by one action of the 
spade.—Where the earth is washed from the quick, face it 
with, the first spit of earth dug out of the ditch. Mortimer. 
To SPIT, v. a. preterite spat ; participle pass, spit, or 
spitted, [speten, Teut. to pierce.] To put upon a spit. 
I see my cousin’s ghost. 
Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body 
Upon a rapier’s point. Shakspeare, 
To thurst through.—I spitted frogs, I crush'd a heap of 
emmets. Dryden. 
To SPIT, v. a. [ppsecan, ppifcfcan, Saxon; spyta, IceL 
spytter, Danish.] To eject from the mouth. 
The sea thursts up her waves, 
One after other, thicke and high, upon the groaning shores. 
First in herself loud, but oppos’d with banks and rocks she 
rores. 
And all her backe in bristles set, spits every way her fome. 
Chapman. 
To SPIT, v. n. To throw out spittle or moisture of the 
mouth.— Spit on your finger and thumb, and pinch the 
snuff till the candle goes out. Swift. 
SPIT, s. What is thrown from the mouth. 
SPIT, The, a shoal of the Atlantic, near the coast of 
South Carolina; 15 miles south of. Cape Fear. Lat. 33* 
34. N. long. 78. 10. W. 
SPI'TAL, s. A charitable foundation. See Spittle. 
SPITAL, a small town of Austrian Illyria, in Upper 
Carinthia, on the Liser, about a mile from the Drave. In 
1797, the greatest part of this town was burnt by the French, 
but it has since been rebuilt; 6 miles east of Saxenburg, 
and 20 north-west of Villach. 
To SPI'TCHCOCK, v. a. To split an eel in two, long, 
wise, and having laid on it the yolk of an egg with crumbs 
of bread, spice, sweet herbs, and parsley, to broil it. 
No man lards salt pork with orange peel, 
Or garnishes his lamb with spitchcockt eel. King. 
SPI'TCHCOCK, s. An eel spjtchcocked.—Will you have 
some crayfish and a spitchcocke ? Decker. 
SPITE, s. [spijt, Dutch; despit, French.] Malice Ran¬ 
cour ; hate; malignity; malevolence.—This breeding rather 
spite than shame in her, or, if it were a shame, a shame not 
of 
Pope. 
Dryden. 
