spirite

spirite

1. past adverbial passive participle of spiri

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spirite m or f by sense (plural spirites)

1. spiritualist

• “spirite”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

spirite (plural spirites)

1. (alchemy) spirit
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     the foure spirites and the bodyes seven

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spirite n

1. plural of spirit