Definition of soul

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Soul (n.) The spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government; -- sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; -- sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling, in distinction fr

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Pastoral :: Pastoral (a.) Relating to the care of souls, or to the pastor of a church; as, pastoral duties; a pastoral letter..
Immortality :: Immortality (n.) The quality or state of being immortal; exemption from death and annihilation; unending existance; as, the immortality of the soul..
Vampire :: Vampire (n.) A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730..
Plotinist :: Plotinist (n.) A disciple of Plotinus, a celebrated Platonic philosopher of the third century, who taught that the human soul emanates from the divine Being, to whom it reunited at death..
Metempsychosis :: Metempsychosis (n.) The passage of the soul, as an immortal essence, at the death of the animal body it had inhabited, into another living body, whether of a brute or a human being; transmigration of souls..
Stail :: Stahlianism (n.) The Stahlian theoru, that every vital action is function or operation of the soul..
Underworld :: Underworld (n.) The mythological place of departed souls; Hades.
Whole-souled :: Whole-souled (a.) Thoroughly imbued with a right spirit; noble-minded; devoted.
Charon :: Charon (n.) The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions..
Inward :: Inward (a.) Seated in the mind, heart, spirit, or soul..
Yama :: Yama (n.) The king of the infernal regions, corresponding to the Greek Pluto, and also the judge of departed souls. In later times he is more exclusively considered the dire judge of all, and the tormentor of the wicked. He is represented as of a green color, with red garments, having a crown on his head, his eyes inflamed, and sitting on a buffalo, with a club and noose in his hands..
Erebus :: Erebus (n.) A place of nether darkness, being the gloomy space through which the souls passed to Hades. See Milton's Paradise Lost, Book II., line 883..
Void :: Void (a.) Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
Ecstasy :: Ecstasy (n.) The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions, as when under the influence of overpowering emotion; an extraordinary elevation of the spirit, as when the soul, unconscious of sensible objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries..
Clod :: Clod (n.) That which is earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul..
Inferiae :: Inferiae (n. pl.) Sacrifices offered to the souls of deceased heroes or friends.
Requiem :: Requiem (n.) A mass said or sung for the repose of a departed soul.
Feeling :: Feeling (n.) An act or state of perception by the sense above described; an act of apprehending any object whatever; an act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself; consciousness.
Megalopsychy :: Megalopsychy (n.) Greatness of soul.
Soul :: Soul (n.) The seat of real life or vitality; the source of action; the animating or essential part.
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