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▪ I. sprite, n.|spraɪt|
Forms: α. 4, 5–7 Sc., spreit (5 spreyt, spreyte), 5–6 sprete, 6 spreet(e; 5–6 spret, 6 sprette. β. 5, 7 spryt (6 sprijt), 5–7 spryte, 5– sprite. (See also spright n.1) γ. 5 spritte, 5–7 sprit, 8 sp'rit.
[ad. OF. esprit, or similarly reduced from OF. esperit(e, AF. spirit(e spirit n. Cf. spirt n.1]
1.
†a. = spirit n. in various senses. Obs. exc. arch.
αa1300Cursor M. 15667 Þof þe spreit ai redi be Þe flesche be fus to plight. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxxiii. (George) 796 As he hyr þis had talde, Þe spret vn to god scho ȝald. c1400Destr. Troy 5099 Eneas..spake full dispitously with a sprete felle. c1450Holland Howlat 620 That terrible felloun my spreit affrayd. 1526Tindale Acts xvii. 16 His sprete was moved in hym. 1535Coverdale Haggai i. 14 So the Lorde waked vp the sprete of Zorobabel..and the sprete of Iesua. 1584Hudson Du Bartas' Judith ii. 467 Whose living spreet Reviving spreads, and through all things doth fleet. c1615Sir W. Mure Misc. Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 30 Erect my puir dejected spreit, Prostrat befoir thy mercies feete.
βc1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxii. (Lawrence) 450 Fore contryt spryt euir ȝet was to my god thankful sacrifice. c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 66 Rightwys philosophers..lightend with godys spryt of wyt. 1502W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione i. v. (1893) 157 To rede the scripture with as great fervour of spryte as it was receyued firste. 1578Lyte Dodoens 229 It is profitable for those that are..troubled in sprite or minde. 1607Rowlands Earl of Warwick (Hunterian Cl.) 7 This man compos'd of courage, full of sprite, Of hard adventures, and of great designs. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. c 41 Lord of Light, Without whose gracious Aid and constant Sprite No Labours prosper. 1730Shenstone Ode to Health 43 Forth with jocund sprite, I run. 1761Gray Odin 29 Who thus afflicts my troubled sprite? [1847S. Judd Margaret iii. (1851) 417 So speaks my sprite.] 1928R. Campbell Wayzgoose ii. 53 As she bent above her chosen Knight A lovely fragrance ravished all his sprite.
γ14..Chaucer's L.G.W., Ariadne 2069 (Camb. MS.), For whiche myn sprit goth to do me shame. 1442Cursor M. 170 (Bedford MS.), Iesus after his fastyng long was temtid wiþ þe sprit [of] wrong. 1565Stapleton Fort. Faith 122 We see how farre the faith of the first vj. C. yeares, and the sprit of Protestants do agree. 16051st Pt. Jeronimo iii. i. 73 This should not be mong men of vertuous sprit. Pay trybute thou, and receiue peace and writ. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 44/1 To his fair Spoils his Sprit again yet give.
†b. pl. = spirit n. 17. Obs.
αc1470Henry Wallace xi. 176 He agayn in greiff him grippyt sayr, Quhill spretis failȝeid ner. 1533Bellenden Livy Prol. (S.T.S.) I. 1 Quykin þe spretis of my dull Ingyne. 1566Drant Horace, Sat. iv. C, How say you, haue not comedies theyr vigors, and their spreets?
β1567Drant Horace, Ep. ii. i. G vij, That poet..That can stere vp my passions or quicke my sprytes at all. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. David cxix. iii, I the pleasures of my sprites Will unto thy doctrine bind.
c. = spirit n. 9. rare—1.
1844Disraeli Coningsby iv. xii. He generally contrived..to steal down with some congenial sprites to the magical and illumined chamber [sc. the billiard-room].
2. = spirit n. 2 b and 3, spright n.1 2.
αa1400–50Alexander 4779 He was sodanly sesid & slane with a sprete. c1470Henry Wallace xi. 1262 Quhar art thow, spreyt? ansuer, sa God the sawe. 1526Tindale Mark vi. 49 They supposed yt had bene a sprete and cryed oute. 1575Gamm. Gurton i. ii, As though they had been taken with fairies, or else with some ill spreet. 1611Sir W. Mure Misc. Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 11 For he, now Cupid, now a spreit, did liue me.
β1340–70Alex. & Dind. 623 God is spedful in speche & a spryt clene. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints ix. (Barthol.) 88 Wikit spryt, trawale hym no mare! c1460Fortescue Absol. & Lim. Mon. vi. (1885) 121 Wherfore the holy sprites and angels..haue more poiar than we. a1513Fabyan Chron. (1811) 325 Fyry dragons, and sprytys, were seen fleynge in the ayer. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 100 marg. note, A remedye ageynst walkyng sprites. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. 530, I wot not what sprites and fearefull apparitions. 1675Cotton Burlesque upon B. 51 Where must I lye anights? For I am monstrous fraid of Sprites. 1728Young Love of Fame v. 509 In vain the cock has summon'd sprites away, She walks at noon. a1796Burns ‘As on the Banks’ vi, ‘Nae eastlin blast,’ the sprite replied. a1845Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. iii. House-warming 118 She verily thought that hobgoblins and sprites were there. 1877Mrs. Forrester Mignon I. 12 The most arch, mischievous, impertinent little sprite in the world.
Comb.1609E. Hoby Let. to Mr. T. H. Pref. p. iii, They will not stick to set out our Ladies picture (as one of your sprite-speakers did) with one of your best faces.
γc1400Destr. Troy 4297, I will tell..How sprittis in hom spake to qwho þat spirre wold. 1565Stapleton Fort. Faith 85 The whole churche..by no strength of wicked sprits..can be ouerthrowen. 1728Ramsay Monk & Miller's Wife 245 Syne as the sp'rit gangs marching out, Be sure to lend him a sound rout.
†3. = spirit n. 6 and 6 b. Obs.
13..Coer de L. 394 Upon his schelde a dove whyte, Sygnyfycacioun of the holy spryte. 1526Tindale Eph. iv. 30 Greve not the holy sprete off God. 1538Starkey England ii. i. 143 By Hys Holy Spryte, from whom..commyth al gudnes. c1600Forman in MS. Ashmole 802 fol. 143 b, Governe me with thy holy sprite.
▪ II. † sprite, v. Obs.
In 6 Sc. sprete.
[f. prec.]
trans. To inspire with courage.
1536Bellenden Cron. Scotl. (1821) II. 97 Aidane..spretit thame with sic curage, that thay..put the Saxonis..to flicht. Ibid. 389 This victorie was sa plesand..that every man wes spretit with new curage. |