Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The business, work, or service of a spirit; hence, work quickly and quietly done, as if by a spirit.
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- verb Present participle of
spirit . - noun literary The action of a
spirit orghost . - noun
Inspiration .
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Examples
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Kidnaping or "spiriting" achieved the perfection of a fine art under the second Charles.
Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making Samuel Peter Orth 1897
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A South Korean film director claimed Kim even kidnapped him and his movie star wife in the late 1970s, spiriting them back to North Korea to make movies for him for a decade before they managed to escape from their North Korean agents during a trip to Austria.
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In this myth's symbolic apparatus, Obama is not an elected official whose policies are to be engaged rationally; he is a Satan corrupting the Edenic order to the malevolent glee of those dark legions spiriting away the tax dollars of the righteous.
Feisal G. Mohamed: Against Historical Fundamentalism: Jill Lepore on the Tea Party Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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In this myth's symbolic apparatus, Obama is not an elected official whose policies are to be engaged rationally; he is a Satan corrupting the Edenic order to the malevolent glee of those dark legions spiriting away the tax dollars of the righteous.
Feisal G. Mohamed: Against Historical Fundamentalism: Jill Lepore on the Tea Party Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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In this myth's symbolic apparatus, Obama is not an elected official whose policies are to be engaged rationally; he is a Satan corrupting the Edenic order to the malevolent glee of those dark legions spiriting away the tax dollars of the righteous.
Feisal G. Mohamed: Against Historical Fundamentalism: Jill Lepore on the Tea Party Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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Set among the hickory and tulip trees on 120 acres of woodland, Crystal Bridges is an impious, spiriting place to find A+ art.
Art in the Ozarks Holly Finn 2011
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We were putatively hunting gophers but we really were on serial adventures, sometimes exploring abandoned ammo bunkers at the old Army Air Corps base, seeing where some old wagon trail went or even spiriting along some of grandpa's secret stash of Everclear to see if it would really burn.
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LJUBLJANA, Slovenia -- A Slovene man is accused of spiriting away his 4-year-old daughter in a custody battle-turned-missing girl case that has captivated this small European country.
Klara Kaker: The Missing Girl Case That's Gripped Slovenia 2011
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Duvalier has also been accused of pilfering millions of dollars from public funds and spiriting them out of the country to Swiss banks, though he denies stealing from Haiti.
Haiti moves toward corruption trial for ex-dictator Duvalier 2011
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In this myth's symbolic apparatus, Obama is not an elected official whose policies are to be engaged rationally; he is a Satan corrupting the Edenic order to the malevolent glee of those dark legions spiriting away the tax dollars of the righteous.
Feisal G. Mohamed: Against Historical Fundamentalism: Jill Lepore on the Tea Party Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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