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soul | besoul |

As an adjective soul

is .

As a verb besoul is

to imbue or endow with a soul.

soul

English

(wikipedia soul)

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl) (the Scandinavian forms are borrowings from the Old English).

Alternative forms

* sowl (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death.
  • * 1836 , (Hans Christian Andersen) (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872), (The Little Mermaid)
    • "Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not an immortal soul', nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal ' soul , can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or
  • The spirit or essence of anything.
  • * , chapter=22
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul . The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
  • Life, energy, vigor.
  • * Young
    • That he wants algebra he must confess; / But not a soul to give our arms success.
  • (music) Soul music.
  • A person, especially as one among many.
  • An individual life.
    • Fifty souls were lost when the ship sank.
    * (English Citations of "soul")
    Derived terms
    * All Souls' Day * bare one's soul * body and soul * brevity is the soul of wit * dead soul * heart and soul * neo soul * sell one's soul * soul brother * soul-destroying * soul food * soul kiss * soul mate/soulmate * soul-searching * soul-strring * souled * soulful * soulfully * soulfulness * soul music * soul patch * soul searching * soul sister * world soul (soul)
    Related terms
    * mind * spirit

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To endue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
    • (Chaucer)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.
    • (Warner)
    (Webster 1913) ----

    besoul

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To imbue or endow with a soul.
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1960 , year_published=2004 , edition=Reprint , editor= , author=Karl Barth, Karl Barth G. W. Bromiley T. F. Torrance , title=Church Dogmatics the Doctrine of Creation , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group , isbn=9780567050892 , page= , passage=As we have seen, it does not belong to the concept of material body to be alive, and even less to the be alive in and independent way and therefore to be besouled . }}

    Derived terms

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