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36301 Etymology dictionary, p. edify (v.).2
… "improve spiritually, instruct" (see edifice ). Related: Edified; edifying .
36302 Etymology dictionary, p. empowerment (n.).3
… a spiritual sense. In social and political contexts, especially in reference to women or minorities, "a taking control of one's economic opportunities and …
36303 Etymology dictionary, p. enlightenment (n.).2
… , of spiritual enlightenment, etc. Attested from 1865 as a translation of German Aufklärung, a name for the spirit of independent thought and rationalistic …
36304 Etymology dictionary, p. esprit (n.).2
1590s, "liveliness, wit, vivacity," from French esprit "spirit, mind," from Old French espirit "spirit, soul" (12c.), from Latin spiritus "spirit" (see spirit (n.)). For initial e-, see e- .
36305 Etymology dictionary, p. estate (n.).4
… Lords Spiritual, Lords Temporal, and commons. For Fourth Estate see four .
36306 Etymology dictionary, p. exercise (n.).2
… or spiritual exercise," from Latin exercitium "training, physical exercise" (of soldiers, horsemen, etc.); "play;" in Medieval Latin also of arts, from exercitare …
36307 Etymology dictionary, p. exercise (v.).2
… and spiritual training. The sense of "engage in physical activity" is from 1650s. Also from late 14c. in the sense of "train, drill, discipline, educate (someone …
36308 Etymology dictionary, p. fan (n.1).2
… inspire, spiritually arouse;" see wood (adj.)). Old English did not have a letter -v-, hence the change in the initial consonant.
36309 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 …
36310 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 …
36311 Etymology dictionary, p. formalism (n.).2
… , or spirituality, or meaning; or belief in the sufficiency of formal logic. Related: Formalist .
36312 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 .
36313 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 …
36314 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 .
36315 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 …
36316 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 …
36317 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 …
36318 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
36319 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 …
36320 Etymology dictionary, p. honeyed (adj.).4
Middle English also had honey-sweet (adj.) "sweet as honey; pleasurable; spiritually beneficial."