spiriten

spiriten

English

Etymology

From spirit +‎ -en.

Verb

spiriten (third-person singular simple present spiritens, present participle spiritening, simple past and past participle spiritened)

1. (transitive, intransitive, dialectal) To endue, enliven, or raise the spirit of; liven.
   • 2011, Foxfire Fund, Inc., Eliot Wigginton, Foxfire 4:

     Some traders would give 'em shots, feed 'em dynamite, make these old dead horses spiriten up. Take a piece of a stick of dynamite and mash it up in their feed. They say it'll spiriten 'em up. I've tried it, but I didn't think it done much good.

Anagrams

• Petrinis, pristine