ensouled

Adjective

ensouled (comparative more ensouled, superlative most ensouled)

1. Having a soul or spirit; having sentience, consciousness and will.
   • In any case, whether the mother gives birth to a single child or to "identical twins." the result is the birth of one or more "ensouled" persons.2003, John Breck, God with Us: Critical Issues in Christian Life and Faith, page 52
   • As with Plato, the beings inhabiting our world are not ensouled in the same degree: animals are not ensouled in the same manner as human beings; plants are even worse off because, unlike animals, they have no capacity for feeling.2012, Gananath Obeyesekere, The Awakened Ones, page 130
2. Having a spiritual aspect.
   • More generally, one could say that through revealing a profound paralleling between the psychic and physical events, synchronicity as it were adds a missing half to each, making the psychic events more embodied and the physical events more ensouled.2007, Roderick Main, Revelations of Chance: Synchronicity as Spiritual Experience, page 75
   • Influenced by both Plato and Aristotle, Plotinus' project involved bringing together the Phaedo's portrait of the soul as otherworldly with the Timaeus' more ensouled account of the material world. (Rist 1967, p. 112).2014, Michael Fuller, The Concept of the Soul: Scientific and Religious Perspectives
3. Full of soul; soulful; spiritually profound.
   • For a. more ensouled world, therefore, we need to embrace the qualities of old age, too, no matter how old we ourselves are; its ability to act from truth rather than expectation and its awareness of the frailty and fragility of life will assist us in understanding what really matters and the...2007, Ross Heaven, The Way of the Lover: Rumi and the Spiritual Art of Love
   • A fundamental yet virtually unexamined issue . . . today is the question of whether all beauty. . . is merely a random product of blind evolution and subjective circumstance or whether that beauty is in some sense significant and intentional, and expression of something more ensouled, more...2011, Shannon McCabe, Aesthetic Alternative
4. Instilled into the soul; deep and inward.
   • In this way, we can see how the son carries the mother's characteristics a step deeper so that they become a part of his consitution, whereas the daughter raises the father's characteristics a step so that they are more inward, more ensouled.1996, Rudolf Steiner, The Education of the Child, page 100
   • We gain nothing by prescribing a fixed treatment regimen instead of an ensouled connection with each other, and we lose considerable insight into soul and psyche.2015, Renee Winters, The Hoarding Impulse: Suffocation of the Soul