Spiriter
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who spirits away another, particularly one who steals children to be sold into forced labour in the New World.
"When Jupiter, in shape of Eagle, Came the young stripling to inveigle, And seizing him like any Sparrow With his Beak holding his Tiara, To make him sure as swift as Hobby, He bare him into Heaven's Lobby; Whilst the poor boy half dead with Fear, Writh'd back to view his Spiriter."
- 2 One who is sensitive to spirits; a medium or spiritualist.
"The spiriters sit round and wait, and, after some time, the spiriter with the largest amount of faith feels a spirit."
Example
More examples"When Jupiter, in shape of Eagle, Came the young stripling to inveigle, And seizing him like any Sparrow With his Beak holding his Tiara, To make him sure as swift as Hobby, He bare him into Heaven's Lobby; Whilst the poor boy half dead with Fear, Writh'd back to view his Spiriter."
Etymology
From spirit + -er.
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