Meaning

• The soul of a person or other creature. What moves through experience into self-definition as souls purpose.

• A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.

  "A wandering spirit haunts the island."

• Enthusiasm.

  "School spirit is at an all-time high."

• The manner or style of something.

  "In the spirit of forgiveness, we didn't press charges."

• (usually in the plural) A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term for distilled alcoholic beverages.

• Energy; ardour.

• One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper.

  "a ruling spirit; a schismatic spirit"

• Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; often in the plural.

  "to be cheerful, or in good spirits; to be down-hearted, or in bad spirits"

• Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.

• A rough breathing; an aspirate, such as the letter h; also, a mark denoting aspiration.

• Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.

  "the spirit of an enterprise, or of a document"

• Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).

• (dyeing) Stannic chloride.

Meaning

• To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.

• To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; sometimes followed by up.

  "Civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men."