Word Meanings - MALINGERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The spirit or practices of a malingerer; malingering.
Related words: (words related to MALINGERY)
- 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; - 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. - 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. - 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. - MALINGERER
In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability. - 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. - MALINGERY
The spirit or practices of a malingerer; malingering. - 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 - SPIRITUALITY
That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities. During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof. Blackstone. 3. An ecclesiastical body; the - 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. - UNSPIRIT
To dispirit. Sir W. Temple. - HOT-SPIRITED
Having a fierly spirit; hot-headed. - MEAN-SPIRITED
Of a mean spirit; base; groveling. -- Mean"-spir`it*ed*ness, n.