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Webster 1913 Edition
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 (esp. distilled) spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
as,
. spirituous
liquors3.
Lively; gay; vivid; airy.
[Obs.]
Sir H. Wotton.
The mind of man is of that
spirituous
, stirring nature, that it is perpetually at work. South.
Webster 1828 Edition
Spirituous
SPIRITUOUS
,Adj.
1.
Containing spirit; consisting of refined spirit; ardent; as spirituous liquors. [This might well be written spiritous.]2.
Having the quality of spirit; fine; pure; active; as the spirituous part of a plant.3.
Lively; gay; vivid; airy. [Not in use.]