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perispritic

perispritic adjective: of or pertaining to the perispirit.

Adjective

perispritic (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to the perispirit.
    • In other words, just as there is no other obstacle to our advancement than that which we make for ourselves by our persistence in wrong-doing, so there is no other arbiter of our destiny than our own moral and intellectual state, which state decides, at each successive period of our career, the...1871, Anna Blackwell, The Philosophy of Existence, pages 61–2
    • “A Spirit” is a complex being, in which is a trinity, consisting of a soul, or inner principle of conscious and active selfhood; a permanent soul envelope (Nephesch), which I will call Perisprit, composed of the “Dynamic substance,” which is the substantiality of Magnetism and Electricity; and a...1874, Count de Medina Pomar, The Honeymoon, volume 2, pages 173–4
    Synonyms:
    perispiritic

Synonyms of perispritic

Origin of perispritic

From perispirit + -ic.

Questions about perispritic

What does perispritic mean?
Perispritic means of or pertaining to the perispirit.
What part of speech is perispritic?
Perispritic is an adjective.

Words near perispritic in the dictionary

  1. perisporia
  2. perisporiaceous
  3. perisporium
  4. perisporiums
  5. perisprit
  6. perispritic
  7. perisprits
  8. perissad
  9. perissads
  10. perissityid
  11. perissityids

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