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.
A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons Exhibiting the Fraudulent Sophistications of Bread, Beer, Wine, Spiritous Liquors, Tea, Coffee, Cream, Confectionery, Vinegar, Mustard, Pepper, Cheese, Olive Oil, Pickles, and Other Articles Employed in Domestic Economy Friedrich Christian Accum 1803
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It also points out its import statistics, which show a far larger per capita consumption of spiritous liquors.
A GOBOTO NIGHT 2010
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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.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006
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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.”
Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy M.D. Walter C. Willett 2005
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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.”
Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy M.D. Walter C. Willett 2005
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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.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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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.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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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.
Breathless Laura Lee Guhrke 1999
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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.
Breathless Laura Lee Guhrke 1999
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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.
Breathless Laura Lee Guhrke 1999
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