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dispirit, v.|dɪˈspɪrɪt|
Formerly also disspirit.
[dis- 7 a.]
To deprive of spirit.
†1. trans. To deprive of essential quality, vigour, or force; to weaken to deprive of animation; to deprive (liquor) of its spirit, to render flat. Obs.
1647May Hist. Parl. i. vii. 73 They woulde vaporate and dis-spirit the power and vigour of Religion. 1660Sharrock Vegetables 139 The fruit, by the loss of the natural seed, would be very much dispirited. 1685Boyle Salub. Air 40 If the Bottles were not kept well-stopt, they [corpuscles] would in a short time vanish, and leave the Liquor dispirited. 1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. (1709) 38 He that has dispirited himself by a Debauch. 1713C'tess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 9 Trail all your pikes, dispirit every drum, Ye silent, ye dejected Men of War.
2. To lower the spirits of; to make despondent, discourage, dishearten, depress.
1647[see dispirited]. 1732Gay in Swift's Lett. (1766) II. 151, I find myself dispirited, for want of having some pursuit. 1759Robertson Hist. Scot. I. v. 382 A blow so fatal and unexpected dispirited the party. 1790–1811Combe Devil upon 2 Sticks in Eng. (1817) VI. 292 To dispirit the sufferer from future exertions. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. viii. 260 One side was cheered and the other dispirited by an unlooked-for incident.
†3. To extract and transfuse the ‘spirit’ or essence of. Obs. rare.
1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iii. xviii. 200 Proportion an houres meditation to an houres reading of a staple authour. This makes a man master of his learning, and dispirits the book into the Scholar. |
