Meanings
verbspiriten (third-person singular simple present spiritens, present participle spiritening, simple past and past participle spiritened)
present singular third person spiritens · participle present spiritening · participle past spiritened · past spiritened
- ambitransitivedialectalTo endue, enliven, or raise the spirit of; liven.
Some traders would give 'em shots, feed 'em dynamite, make these old dead horses spiriten up. Take a piece of a stick of dynamite and mash it up in their feed. They say it'll spiriten 'em up. I've tried it, but I didn't think it done much good.
2011, Foxfire Fund, Inc., Eliot Wigginton, Foxfire 4
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*(s)peys-der.?
- Latinspīrō
- Latinspīritu
- Old Frenchespirit
- Middle Englishspirit
- Englishspirit
- Englishspiriten
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APA
spiriten. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spiriten
MLA
“spiriten.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spiriten. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spiriten,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spiriten.
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