spirit-likeadj.adv.

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xiii. 170 These great minds, will in as great a sort, Strengthen your bodies, and force checke, to all great Hectors charge, Though nereso spirit-like.

1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xxvii. 244 Those masters..teach vs that the impressions vpon sense are made by spirituall or spiritelike thinges or qualities.

1753 J. Okeley tr. N. L. von Zinzendorf 21 Disc. upon Augsberg-Confession ix. 125 Whoever is become Spirit-like in that Part;..such a one is in the Height of the Situation so lamentably painted by Paul.

1839 J. R. Lowell Lett. (1894) I. 41 Eyes the largest..and most spirit-like I ever dreamed of.

1896 Irish Monthly 24 184 Louder and fiercer grows the hurricane.., a loosened frenzy of spiritlike powers mingled of ocean, of sky, and of air.

1934 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 24 Dec. 22/5 An angel came toward us..Sort of spirit-like or ghostly.

1979 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 39 125 The peculiar power of a spiritlike man to discriminate entities of the outer reality is precisely due to the shen which is present in him.

2015 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 8 Dec. 26 The rock, on which Durham painted a spirit-like face, is from an ancient Aztec site.

1638 C. Aleyn Hist. Henrie VII 92 He did looke Stately enough, and Spiritlike assum'd The Body of another.

1696 Jerk for Jacks Ep. Ded. p. iii Having in the Revolution of a few Moons disappear'd and (Spirit-like) vanish'd quite out of our sight.

1732 Universal Spectator 19 Feb. Thro' Woods, Wilds, Waves, and Rocks, and Mountains Thou, without crowding, Spirit-like, may'st go.

1839 T. Miller Rural Sketches 9 Some angler..moved spirit-like across the dim landscape.

1879 Amer. Architect & Building News 7 June 181/2 Here and there..in certain lights dim forms of early saints appear, spirit-like, under the later decoration.

1921 Baptist 5 Mar. 147/2 His lips moving spirit-like.

1984 Washington Post 10 May b1/6 It doesn't seem to bleed out as much as pass spirit-like through his body.

2007 A. Ede in J. Schummer et al. Public Image Chem. viii. 202 The mystical aspects of the image are further heightened by having the figure float, spirit-like, above the fields.