Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Spirituous.
- adjective Obsolete Highly refined; pure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of spirit; intangible; refined; pure; subtile.
- Burning; ardent; fiery; active.
- Same as
spirituous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Like spirit; refined; defecated; pure.
- adjective rare Ardent; active.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
spirituous - adjective
high-spirited
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective containing or of the nature of alcohol
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Examples
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Its flavour will vary according to the kind of spiritous liquor from which it is obtained.
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It also points out its import statistics, which show a far larger per capita consumption of spiritous liquors.
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Meanwhile, ox_number_10 drank one of every major spiritous liquor, in sequence, which began to remind me of the inevitable ascension of Enoch, or perhaps of the descent of Inanna, through the Gates of Al-Kohl.
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More than two hundred years ago, William Heberden, the British physician who first described the chest pain known today as angina, wrote that “wine and spiritous liquors—afford considerable relief from angina.”
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More than two hundred years ago, William Heberden, the British physician who first described the chest pain known today as angina, wrote that “wine and spiritous liquors—afford considerable relief from angina.”
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Then the Government had realized that there was even more money to be made by taxing spiritous liquors made inside England; those were excise duties.
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Then the Government had realized that there was even more money to be made by taxing spiritous liquors made inside England; those were excise duties.
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For her, the fact that the Shivaree Social Club served spiritous liquors was not as sinful as the carnal activities that went on there.
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For her, the fact that the Shivaree Social Club served spiritous liquors was not as sinful as the carnal activities that went on there.
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For her, the fact that the Shivaree Social Club served spiritous liquors was not as sinful as the carnal activities that went on there.
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