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spiriters

spiriters is the plural of spiriter.

Meaning of spiriter

Noun

spiriter (plural spiriters)

  1. One who spirits away another, particularly one who steals children to be sold into forced labour in the New World.
    • When Jupiter, in shape of Eagle, Came the young stripling to inveigle, And seizing him like any Sparrow With his Beak holding his Tiara, To make him sure as swift as Hobby, He bare him into Heaven's Lobby; Whilst the poor boy half dead with Fear, Writh'd back to view his Spiriter.1675, Charles Cotton, Burlesque upon Burlesque: Or, The Scoffer Scoft
  2. One who is sensitive to spirits; a medium or spiritualist.
    • The spiriters sit round and wait, and, after some time, the spiriter with the largest amount of faith feels a spirit.1869 September 22, Q, “Philosophical Essays”, in Humbug: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Satire, page 8

Questions about spiriters

What is spiriters the plural of?
Spiriters is the plural of spiriter.

Words near spiriters in the dictionary

  1. spiriten
  2. spiritened
  3. spiritening
  4. spiritens
  5. spiriter
  6. spiriters
  7. spiritess
  8. spiritesses
  9. spiriteth
  10. spiritful
  11. spiritfully

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