Crossword-Solution: SPIRITUOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spirituous | a. | Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. |
| Spirituous | a. | Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic (esp. distilled) spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent; as, spirituous liquors. |
| Spirituous | a. | Lively; gay; vivid; airy. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “SPIRITUOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CONTAINING OR OF THE NATURE OF ALCOHOL | 11 answers |
| inebriating | 12 answers |
| DISTILLED ___ | 17 answers |
| Intoxicant | 18 answers |
| alcoholic | 29 answers |
| Thrilling | 55 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SPIRITUOUS (5)
This exposure was an excuse for carrying with them, in considerable quanties(sic), spirituous liquors, the then supposed best antidote for cold.
Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it is considerable quantity.
The eating will be light from now on; just a little something salty now and then." So Miss Fink dabbed covertly at her eyes and betook herself out of the atmosphere of roasting, and broiling, and frying, and stewing; away from the sight of great copper kettles, and glowing coals and hissing pans, into a little world fragrant with mint, breathing of orange and lemon peel, perfumed with pineapple, redolent of cinnamon and clove, reeking with things spirituous.
And well it might; for here was the whole world’s stock of spirituous liquors, which, instead of kindling a frenzied light in the eyes of individual topers as of yore, soared upwards with a bewildering gleam that startled all mankind.
Symptoms being so dangerous, some incisions were made down to the quick, some spirituous fomentations made use of, and the whole limb dressed up with such applications as are most approved in such desperate circumstances, joined with proper internal medicines.