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1651 J. F. tr. H. C. Agrippa Three Bks. Occult Philos. ii. lv. 328 For what do these verses seem to mean, then that the world should not only have a spirit soul, but also to partake of the divine mind.

1833 Liverpool Mercury 18 Jan. 17/1 (advt.) This present Friday..will be performed..the Spirit Bride and the Magi's Daughter.

1838 W. L. Alexander tr. G. Billroth Comm. Epist. Paul to Cor. II. (1 Cor. xv. 42-44) 112 What is subjected to earthly death is only the soul-body, the principle of natural life; at the coming of Christ, however, it will be raised a spirit-body.

1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 50 Have I not heard thee hint of spirit-friends? Where are they now?

1841 S. C. Hall & A. M. Hall Ireland I. 192 A belief in the existence of the spirit-chieftain.

1845 G. Murray Islaford 186 The spirit-lady soars away.

1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 119 There are spirit-rulers of all worlds.

1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 336 It will bear the gaze Of all the star souls and the spirit stars Which will the living land of light indwell.

1850 E. B. Browning Seraphim (new ed.) i, in Poems (new ed.) I. 116 Doth the Spirit-wind Blow white those waters?

1900 Month Jan. 96 For ages..these wild people had believed in spirit-guardians, and also in spirit-enemies.

1906 D. A. Huebsch tr. O. D. D. Pfleiderer Christian Origins ii. 172 The heavenly spirit-being which appears in Buddha and other redemptory personages is designated as ‘the great man’.

1961 N. Roy Black Albino (1989) iii. 73 Give these heads to your dancers, and the skeleton head of the spirit monster must be impaled on a pole.

2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 20 Aug. c22/4 Baule sculptures of spirit-spouses, embodying the significant others each of us has in the metaphysical realm.

2016 L. Erdrich LaRose 227 He..whispered in her ear. I got some spirit helpers.