spiritlike

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According to Hahnemann, the vigorous shaking transferred the "spiritlike" essence of the medicine to the solvent.

From Time Magazine Archive

This specialization of functions is possibly in part an elevation of the old scheme of spirits according to which every object in the world was conceived of as inhabited or controlled by some spiritlike being.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris

The gold of her mantle seemed one with the gold of the candle rays, and, for many a silent watcher, those gliding, gleaming, spiritlike forms will move forever down a shining path in memory.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee

She had stretched out her spiritlike hands, but to draw them back again, in the fashion that fascinated and at the same time maddened him, once too often.

From The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe by Stanard, Mary Newton

It was usually heard on cloudy evenings, a strange, unearthly, winnowing, spiritlike sound, yet easily heard at a distance of a third of a mile.

From The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by Muir, John