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35581 Etymology dictionary, p. spouse (n.).2
… the spiritual husband of the soul, the church, etc.," and sometimes also a term of address; also "marriage, the wedded state," from Old French spous (fem. spouse ) "marriage …
35582 Etymology dictionary, p. spouse (n.).3
Wycliffe and other old religious writers have spousess "wife, bride," chiefly in figurative spiritual use. Spouse-breach (early 13c.) was an old name for "adultery;" spouse-breaker (early 14c.) for "adulterer."
35583 Etymology dictionary, p. spousal (n.).3
… state; spiritual union (of a virgin) with Christ" (late Old English), with -hood .
35584 Etymology dictionary, p. sprite (n.).2
… Latin spiritus ( spirit (n.) retains the Latin form). So in Middle English and after sprite could mean "breath; the principle of life; the Holy Ghost; mind, intellect …
35585 Etymology dictionary, p. starve (v.).2
… "die spiritually," from Old English steorfan "to die" (past tense stearf, past participle storfen ), etymologically "become stiff," from Proto-Germanic *sterbanan …
35586 Etymology dictionary, p. stirring (n.).2
… .), originally spiritual; in reference to love, regret, etc., from late 14c. Related: Stirrings. Stirrage for "act of stirring" in a literal sense (1510s) seems obsolete …
35587 Etymology dictionary, p. subdue (v.).4
The meaning "bring (a person) to mental or spiritual subjection, prevail over, render submissive" is from c. 1500.
35588 Etymology dictionary, p. sup (v.1).3
In the Bible, "take the principal meal of the day" (a late dinner). Often especially of a meal in company; in Middle English often figurative of spiritual communion or heavenly life after death, with senses influenced by the Last Supper.
35589 Etymology dictionary, p. super-.4
… and spiritual writing, the notion in it was "beyond; not partaking of." Hence superordinary "excellent, better than what is common or usual" (1620s); supersensual …
35590 Etymology dictionary, p. supererogation (n.).4
… the spiritual worth of any of its members" [Hook, "Church Dictionary," 1854]. This became the basis for the unpopular indulgences that offended the early Protestants …
35591 Etymology dictionary, p. supersensible (adj.).2
also super-sensible, 1798, "beyond the reach of the senses," in reference to what is spiritual or physical but imperceptible to any sense, from super- + sensible .
35592 Etymology dictionary, p. super-spiritual (adj.).1
super-spiritual (adj.)
35593 Etymology dictionary, p. super-spiritual (adj.).2
by 1889, "excessively or overly spiritual," from super- + spiritual (adj.).
35594 Etymology dictionary, p. sweat-lodge (n.).2
"type of low hut of natural material built for specific spiritual ceremonies by various Native American peoples," 1887, from sweat (n.) + lodge (n.). Earlier was sweat-house (1750); a sweating-house (1660s) was a word for a sauna.
35595 Etymology dictionary, p. table (n.).6
… in spiritualism, supposedly an effect of supernatural powers, is from 1853.
35596 Etymology dictionary, p. tantric (adj.).2
"of or pertaining to the Tantras," 1905, from Tantra + -ic; used loosely in the West to denote erotic spiritualism.
35597 Etymology dictionary, p. taste (n.).4
… a spiritual sense.
35598 Etymology dictionary, p. telekinesis (n.).2
in spiritualism, "movement of an object produced without contact," 1890, said in early references to have been coined by Alexander N. Aksakof (1832-1903), Imperial …
35599 Etymology dictionary, p. tenebrous (adj.).6
Tenebrae ("darkness") is used of certain offices of the Catholic Church during Holy Week that emphasize the spiritual darkness of the season.
35600 Etymology dictionary, p. terra (n.).3
… the spiritual); and, in Modern English, a planet among planets (as opposed to Mars, Neptune).