Spiriten
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To endue, enliven, or raise the spirit of; liven. ambitransitive, dialectal
"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."
Example
More examples"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
From spirit + -en.
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