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

"Very well, then," he said, "the Erl-King addresses the child; Erl-King is a spirit, a ghost—so play this place in a spiritlike way, ghostly, if you will, but not ghastly with false notes!"

From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Hofmann, Josef

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

Until the dry weeds seem more beautiful, More spiritlike than even summer's flowers.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert