spirItless, spiritlesse

[Eng. spirit; -le .] 1. Destitute of spirit, courage, life, or vigor. "I cannot think thee yet so dull of heart And spiritle , as never to regret Sweets tasted here." Cowper : Task , i. 652. 2. Destitute of spirits; having lost one's spirits; dull, depre ed, dejected. "A man so faint, so spiritle , So dull, so dead in look, so woe begone." Shakesp.: Henry IV., Pt. II ., 1. 1. *3. Having no spirit or breath; dead, extinct. The spiritle body."-Green hill: Art of Embalming. spir-It-le -lý, adv . [Eng. spiritle ; -ly.] In a spiritle manner; without spirit, life, animation, or vigor. "But Bob was neither rudely bold, Nor spiritle ly tame." Cowper : Epitaph on a Redbreast. spir-It-le -ne , s. [English spiritle ; -ne .] The quality or state of being spiritle ; want of spirit, life, animation, or vigor; dullne . "This is not a loving agreement, arising from onene of spirit, but a dead stupidity, arguing a total spiritle ne ."-Leighton: Comment. on 1 Peter , ch. iii.