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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SPIRITUOUS, a.
1. Containing spirit; consisting of refined spirit; ardent; as spirituous liquors. [This might well be written spiritous.]
2. Having the quality of spirit; fine; pure; active; as the spirituous part of a plant.
3. Lively; gay; vivid; airy. [Not in use.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: containing or of the nature of alcohol; "spiritous beverages"; "spirituous liquors" [syn: spirituous, spiritous]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: probably from French spiritueux, from Latin spiritus spirit Date: 1662 containing or impregnated with alcohol obtained by distillation <spirituous liquors>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 containing much alcohol. 2 distilled, as whisky, rum, etc. (spirituous liquor). Derivatives: spirituousness n. Etymology: L spiritus spirit, or F spiritueux

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Wine Wine, n. [OE. win, AS. win, fr. L. vinum (cf. Icel. v[=i]n; all from the Latin); akin to Gr. o'i^nos, ?, and E. withy. Cf. Vine, Vineyard, Vinous, Withy.] 1. The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment. ``Red wine of Gascoigne.'' --Piers Plowman. Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. --Prov. xx. 1. Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine. --Milton. Note: Wine is essentially a dilute solution of ethyl alcohol, containing also certain small quantities of ethers and ethereal salts which give character and bouquet. According to their color, strength, taste, etc., wines are called red, white, spirituous, dry, light, still, etc. 2. A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine. 3. The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication. Noah awoke from his wine. --Gen. ix. 24. Birch wine, Cape wine, etc. See under Birch, Cape, etc. Spirit of wine. See under Spirit. To have drunk wine of ape or wine ape, to be so drunk as to be foolish. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Wine acid. (Chem.) See Tartaric acid, under Tartaric. [Colloq.] Wine apple (Bot.), a large red apple, with firm flesh and a rich, vinous flavor.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Spirituous Spir"it*u*ous, a. [Cf. (for sense 2) F. spiritueux. Cf. Spiritous.] 1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic (esp. distilled) spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent; as, spirituous liquors. 3. Lively; gay; vivid; airy. [Obs.] --Sir H. Wotton. The mind of man is of that spirituous, stirring nature, that it is perpetually at work. --South.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Alcoholic, ardent, spiritous. 2. Ethereal, immaterial, intangible. 3. Pure, active, living.

Moby Thesaurus

air-built, airy, alcoholic, ardent, chimerical, cloud-built, dreamlike, ethereal, fanciful, fatuitous, fatuous, gaseous, gossamery, hard, illusory, imaginary, phantomlike, rarefied, shadowy, strong, subtile, subtle, tenuous, unreal, vaporous, vinous, windy, winy, with a kick