Word Meanings - POSTNATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Subsequent. "The graces and gifts of the spirit are postnate." Jer. Taylor.

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• SPIRITUOUS
  1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
• POSTNATE
  Subsequent. "The graces and gifts of the spirit are postnate." Jer. Taylor.
• SPIRITUALIZE
  To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize
• SPIRITUOSITY
  The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness.
• SPIRITUAL-MINDED
  Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n.
• SPIRITISM
  Spiritualsm.
• SPIRIT
  Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors. (more info) 1. Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself. "All of spirit would deprive." Spenser.
• SPIRITUALISTIC
  Relating to, or connected with, spiritualism.
• SUBSEQUENT
  1. Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely; as, subsequent events; subsequent ages or years; a period long subsequent to the foundation of Rome. 2. Following in order of place; succeeding; as, a subsequent
• SPIRITUOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being spirituous. Boyle.
• SPIRITUAL
  1. Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. 1 Cor. xv.
• TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
  A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
• SPIRITOUS
  1. Like spirit; refined; defecated; pure. More refined, more spirituous and pure. Milton. 2. Ardent; active.
• SPIRITUALIZATION
  The act of spiritualizing, or the state of being spiritualized.
• SPIRITUALIZER
  One who spiritualizes.
• SPIRITUALISM
  The doctrine, in opposition to the materialists, that all which exists is spirit, or soul -- that what is called the external world is either a succession of notions impressed on the mind by the Deity, as maintained by Berkeley, or else the mere
• SPIRITOSO
  Spirited; spiritedly; -- a direction to perform a passage in an animated, lively manner.
• SPIRITUALNESS
  The quality or state of being spiritual or spiritual-minded; spirituality.
• SPIRITUALTY
  An ecclesiastical body; a spirituality. Shak.
• SPIRITED
  1. Animated or possessed by a spirit. "So talked the spirited, sly snake." Milton. 2. Animated; full of life or vigor; lively; full of spirit or fire; as, a spirited oration; a spirited answer. Note: Spirited is much used in composition; as in
• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• DISPIRITED
  Depressed in spirits; disheartened; daunted. -- Dis*pir"it*ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pir"it*ed, n.
• DISSPIRIT
  See DISPIRIT
• DISPIRITMENT
  Depression of spirits; discouragement. Procter, in evident distress and dispiritment, was waiting the slow conclusion of this. Carlyle.
• HOT-SPIRITED
  Having a fierly spirit; hot-headed.
• UNSPIRIT
  To dispirit. Sir W. Temple.