spiriten

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"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."

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys-der.? Latin spīrō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin spīritus Old French espiritbor. Middle English spirit English spirit English -en English spiriten From spirit + -en.

spiritens (present, singular) spiritening (participle, present) spiritened (participle, past) spiritened (past)

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What does spiriten mean?

To endue, enliven, or raise the spirit of; liven.

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