Word Finder - spirited

definition

To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.

definition

To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; sometimes followed by up.

example

Civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men.

definition

Lively, vigorous, animated or courageous.

Your father told me you were a spirited girl.

For delicate and spirited execution, together with refined gracefulness of design, it is unsurpassed by any similar work of art.

Everyone told her she looked very handsome, and she was in a spirited and energetic mood unusual with her.

She stepped into the crowd with Evelyn, who was soon spirited away by Lishana.

Katie had reason to know how stubborn and spirited Carmen could be when she did care.

I enjoy seeing my friend because he is always so well spirited and helps me to view life from another perspective.

Jackson sat and broke into a spirited arrangement of "The Entertainer."

At fifteen he was a man, resolute, spirited, enterprising, with the germs of many talents and virtues, but rough, reckless and very imperfectly educated.

Foster, the candidate upon whom the Douglas and Breckinridge Democrats and the Constitutional Unionists had united, by 32,000 votes, after a spirited campaign which was watched with intense interest by the entire country as an index of the result of the ensuing presidential election.

At the same instant the sun came fully out from behind the clouds, and the clear sound of the solitary shot and the brilliance of the bright sunshine merged in a single joyous and spirited impression.

Dean expected a spirited argument at the very least, but tomorrow was Wednesday, Atlantic City day, and Fred needed a good night's sleep.

Where Erasmus excelled was in prefaces - not philological introductions to each author, but spirited appeals to the interest of the general reader, showing how an ancient book might be made to minister to modern spiritual demands.

This spirited policy restored the waning prestige of the Hat party and firmly established their anti-Muscovite system.

Despite its large Southern population, Indiana's answer to President Lincoln's first call for volunteers at the outbreak of the Civil War was prompt and spirited.

The 107 timepiece series successfully blends classic Gucci style with a sense of free spirited joy.

He had interested the king, and to some extent the nation, in a spirited foreign policy, had diverted their attention from domestic questions, and had staved off that parliamentary attack on the church which had been threatened fifteen years before.

Bishop Coxe wrote spirited defences of Anglican orders and published several volumes of verse, notably Christian Ballads (1845).

These non-rational elements he further distinguished as appetitive (ro E7rLOvi..arr KOv) and spirited (TO Ov,uoabS or Ovu6r) - the practical separateness of which from each other and from reason he held to be established by our inner experience.

Subsequently he held other positions at Strassburg, Cologne and Augsburg, and in December 1577 was chosen elector of Cologne after a spirited contest.

The last abbot of Glastonbury, Richard Whiting, caused these relics to be spirited away, refusing to give them up.

From the works sinister opening motif through the lyrical second movement to the spirited final allegro, there is a refreshing sense of excitement.

After much spirited bidding around the ring she was finally knocked down to RA & MD Butler of Thatcham.

In an admirable display of defense in the second half Bedford resisted a spirited comeback from Epsom conceding just one late try.

Not wanting to take any chances he hit it and after 10 minutes and a spirited fight his prize was in the net!

Trailing by 7 at the half, Coventry's spirited squad took the game by five points at the final hooter.

By such a spirited death, she provided the reason for the Roman people to replace the monarchy with the republic.

Like Spirited Away, the story is so nutty that you watch with slack-jawed amazement.

It is, I think, one of the most individual and spirited in the entire pantheon that we have in St Paul's.

Every song is a spirited affair and is further testament to her powerful and ingratiating onstage persona.

Philharmonic choir gave a spirited interpretation of Messiah with the accompanying Orchestra da Camera, under the excellent direction of the eminent Nicholas Cleobury.

His spirited rendition of " Like a Virgin " is classic.

The latter were snapped up after Paul donned them and launched into an impromptu spirited rendition of an Elvis number.

The set-up is perfect for normal and spirited riding.

Another of the fest highlights, this mean spirited little Belgian shocker plays like a demented Little Red Riding Hood.

Rebecca Maguire ran a very spirited leg to finish in a close 2nd position.

They are high spirited, quick to react with a keen sense of hearing, which makes them good guard dogs.

Peter was always one for making serious situations into a comedy - he never took life seriously, he was too *** free spirited.

It even started with some suitably spirited singing, and drew many a laugh from the enthusiastic audience.

It's a nasty, mean spirited, hateful movie.

For me, the potential of occultism is less about becoming ' spiritual ', and more about becoming spirited.

When Pamela is spirited away to a remote country estate where she is kept prisoner, the neighboring squire will not give her refuge.

The minor characters of the honest old Huntley, whom the Scottish king obliges to bestow his daughter's hand upon Warbeck, and of her lover the faithful "Dalyell," are most effectively drawn; even "the men of judgment," the adventurers who surround the chief adventurer, are spirited sketches, and the Irishman among them has actually some humour; while the style of the play is, as befits a "Chronicle History," so clear and straightforward as to make it easy as well as interesting to read.

Our only existing memorials of the great work are a number of small pen-studies of fighting men and horses, three splendid studies in red chalk at Budapest for heads in the principal group, one head at Oxford copied by a contemporary of the size of the original cartoon (above life); a tiny sketch, also at Oxford, by Raphael after the principal group; an engraving done by Zacchia of Lucca in 1558 not after the original but after a copy; a 16th-century Flemish drawing of the principal group, and another, splendidly spirited, by Rubens, both copies of copies; with Edelinck's fine engraving after the Rubens drawing.

That was a man in hunting costume, and he rode a spirited and restive horse.

All these and other singularities do not hinder the poem from being a very spirited one.

Despite a strong and spirited fightback by the school in the second half, the OM 's defense held firm.

England made a spirited defense of the trophy in 1970.

It 's a nasty, mean spirited, hateful movie.

Mozart was popularly supposed to dislike the flute as an instrument, but you would never know it from this spirited and tuneful piece.

Superior pack power and weight advantage saw the Lions withstand an onslaught from the spirited French team who were pushing hard for penalties.