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35421 Etymology dictionary, p. feng shui (n.).2
… of spiritual influences in natural landscapes and a means of regulating them; "A kind of geomancy practiced by the Chinese for determining the luckiness …
35422 Etymology dictionary, p. flexible (adj.).2
… or spiritually pliant," from Old French flexible or directly from Latin flexibilis "that may be bent, pliant, flexible, yielding;" figuratively "tractable, inconstant …
35423 Etymology dictionary, p. formalism (n.).2
… , or spirituality, or meaning; or belief in the sufficiency of formal logic. Related: Formalist .
35424 Etymology dictionary, p. geist (n.).2
1871, "intellectuality," also, variously, after German, "spirit" of a place or time; "spirituality," from German Geist (see ghost (n.), and compare zeitgeist ). A German word for "enthusiasm, rapture; inspiration" is begeisterung .
35425 Etymology dictionary, p. ghost (n.).3
… Latin spiritus (see spirit (n.)), a sense preserved in Holy Ghost. Sense of "disembodied spirit of a dead person," especially imagined as wandering among the living …
35426 Etymology dictionary, p. ghostly (adj.).2
Old English gastlic "spiritual, holy, not of the flesh; clerical;" also "supernatural, spectral, pertaining to or characteristic of a ghost;" see ghost (n.) + -ly (1). Related: Ghostliness .
35427 Etymology dictionary, p. gnosis (n.).2
… of spiritual mysteries," 1703, from Greek gnōsis "a knowing, knowledge; a judicial inquiry, investigation; a being known," in Christian writers, "higher knowledge …
35428 Etymology dictionary, p. Gnostic (n.).2
… of spiritual knowledge," from Late Latin Gnosticus "a Gnostic," from Late Greek Gnōstikos, noun use of adjective gnōstikos "knowing, able to discern, good at knowing …
35429 Etymology dictionary, p. gnostic (adj.).2
… of spiritual things, 1650s, from Greek gnōstikos "knowing, good at knowing, able to discern," from gnōstos "known, perceived, understood," earlier gnōtos, from gignōskein …
35430 Etymology dictionary, p. godchild (n.).2
"child one sponsors at baptism," c. 1200, "in ref. to the spiritual relation assumed to exist between them" [Century Dictionary], from God + child. The Old English word was godbearn
35431 Etymology dictionary, p. Hicksite.2
… their spiritual leader, Elias Hicks. The remainder of the profession (the minority numerically) were known as Orthodox Friends. The schism occurred in 1827 …
35432 Etymology dictionary, p. honeyed (adj.).4
Middle English also had honey-sweet (adj.) "sweet as honey; pleasurable; spiritually beneficial."
35433 Etymology dictionary, p. hunger (n.).2
… " (originally spiritual). Hunger strike attested from 1885; earliest references are to prisoners in Russia.
35434 Etymology dictionary, p. illumination (n.).2
… 14c., "spiritual enlightenment," from Late Latin illuminationem (nominative illuminatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin illuminare "to …
35435 Etymology dictionary, p. illumine (v.).2
late 14c., "to enlighten spiritually;" mid-15c., "to light up, shine light on," from Old French illuminer (13c.), from Latin illuminare "make bright, light up" (see illumination ). Related: illumined .
35436 Etymology dictionary, p. illustration (n.).2
… ., "a spiritual illumination," from Old French illustration "apparition, appearance" (13c.) and directly from Latin illustrationem (nominative illustratio ) "vivid …
35437 Etymology dictionary, p. immaterial (adj.).2
… . 1400, "spiritual, incorporeal, not consisting of matter," from Medieval Latin immaterialis "not consisting of matter, spiritual," from assimilated form of in …
35438 Etymology dictionary, p. impure (adj.).3
… , not spiritual" (c. 1500); "obscene, lewd, unchaste, immoral" (1530s); "mixed with offensive matter, tainted" (1590s); "mixed or combined with other things" (without reference …
35439 Etymology dictionary, p. incorporeal (adj.).2
… 15c., "spiritual, immaterial," with -al (1) and Late Latin incorporeus "without body," from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + adjective from corpus (genitive corporis ) "body" (from PIE root …
35440 Etymology dictionary, p. influx (n.).2
1620s, from French influx (16c.) or directly from Late Latin influxus "a flowing in," from past participle stem of Latin influere "to flow in" (see influence (n.)). Originally of rivers, air, light, spiritual light, etc.; used of people from 1650s.