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36261 Etymology dictionary, p. animal (n.).3
… , non-spiritual nature is ascendant) from 1580s.
36262 Etymology dictionary, p. anima mundi (n.).2
"spiritual essence, distinct from matter and supposed in the philosophy of Pythagoras and Plato to be diffused throughout the universe, organizing and …
36263 Etymology dictionary, p. animus (n.).3
… , spirit, spiritual being."
36264 Etymology dictionary, p. anoint (v.).3
… ) has spiritualized the word. Related: Anointed; anointing (c. 1300 as a verbal noun).
36265 Etymology dictionary, p. atmo-.2
… inspire, spiritually arouse;" see wood (adj.)). Beekes says it is not considered to be related to the source of atman .
36266 Etymology dictionary, p. aura (n.).2
… in spiritualism, "subtle emanation around living beings;" earlier "characteristic impression" made by a personality (1859), earlier still "an aroma or subtle …
36267 Etymology dictionary, p. barrenness (n.).2
late 14c., "incapacity for child-bearing" (of women); "unproductivity, unfruitfulness" (of land); earlier in a figurative sense ("spiritual emptiness," mid-14c.); from barren + -ness .
36268 Etymology dictionary, p. Beguine (n.).2
… women's spiritual order professing poverty and self-denial, founded c. 1180 in Liege in the Low Countries." They are said to take their name from the surname …
36269 Etymology dictionary, p. Bildungsroman (n.).2
… of spiritual education, of the main character," 1910, from German Bildungsroman, from Bildung "education, formation, growth" (from Bild "picture, image, figure …
36270 Etymology dictionary, p. biogen (n.).2
1882, "hypothetical soul-stuff, the substance of a proposed spiritual body," coined by U.S. scientist Elliott Coues; see bio- + -gen. From 1899 as "hypothetical protoplasmic unit," from German Biogen (1895). Related: Biogenetic; biogenation .
36271 Etymology dictionary, p. bishop (n.).2
… "watcher, (spiritual) overseer," a title for various government officials, later taken over in a Church sense, from epi- "over" (see epi- ) + skopos "one that watches, one …
36272 Etymology dictionary, p. black (adj.).4
… or spiritual. Latin niger had many of the same figurative senses ("gloomy; unlucky; bad, wicked, malicious"). The metaphoric use of the Greek word, melas, however …
36273 Etymology dictionary, p. blessing (n.).2
… of spiritual well-being or joy;" also of a sanction or benediction of the Pope, a priest, etc.; verbal noun from bless. The meaning "a gift from God, that which gives …
36274 Etymology dictionary, p. bliss (n.).2
… of spiritual joy, perfect felicity, the joy of heaven. It has been influenced by unrelated bless .
36275 Etymology dictionary, p. bodily (adj.).2
c. 1300, "pertaining to the body;" also opposed to "spiritual;" from body + -ly (1). As an adverb (with -ly (2)) from late 14c.
36276 Etymology dictionary, p. carnally (adv.).2
late 15c., "sexually, according to the flesh;" 1530s, "corporeally, not spiritually;" from carnal + -ly (2).
36277 Etymology dictionary, p. carnal (adj.).3
… , not spiritual" is from mid-15c. Carnal knowledge "sexual intercourse" is attested from early 15c. and was in legal use by 1680s. Medieval Latin carnalis meant …
36278 Etymology dictionary, p. castaway (n.).2
… a spiritual sense at first; Johnson's dictionary in 1799 gives "A person lost, or abandoned, by Providence" as the only definition. The specific sense "one adrift …
36279 Etymology dictionary, p. chakra (n.).2
1888 in yoga sense of "a spiritual center of power in the human body," from Sanskrit cakra "circle, wheel," from PIE root *kwel- (1) "revolve, move round."
36280 Etymology dictionary, p. charisma (n.).2
… , "special spiritual gift or power divinely conferred, talent from God" (as on the early Christians in "Acts," etc.), Latinized form of Greek kharisma "favor, divine …