soukles, souks

[SOOKIES.] soul (1), *saul, *saule, *soule, *sowl, *sowle, s. [A.S. sáwel, sáwol, sáwul, sárt, sáwle: cogn. with Dut. ziel; Icel. sála, sál; Dan. siæl; Sw. själ; Goth. saiwala; Ger. seele.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. In the same sense as II. 2. The immaterial part of a beast, when considered as governed by and subject to human affections; the seat of life in an animal. " Souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice, iv. 1. 3. The moral and emotional part of man's nature the seat of the sentiments and feelings, as distinct from intellect. "Whom my very soul abhors." Shakesp.: Two Gentlemen, iv. 3. 4. The intellectual principle; the understanding. "For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense." Milton: P. L. , ii. 556. IMG:content-1749.png:[blocks in formation] ple. "One decree Spake laws to them, and said that by the soul Only the nations shall be great and free." Words worth: Sonnet , Sept., 1802. *8. Internal, innate, or inherent power or princi"There is some soul of goodne in things evil." Shakesp.: Henry V. , iv. 1. 9. A spiritual being; a disembodied spirit. 10. A human being, a person; as, Not a soul knew of his coming. 11. A familiar compellation of a person, usually expre ing some quality of the mind. "Now mistre Gilpin, careful soul! Had two stone bottles found." II. Technically : Cowper: John Gilpin. 1. Philos .: The Scholastics, following Aristotle, by soul meant the primary principle of life, and held that a plant was endowed with a vegetable soul, that brutes and man had in addition a sensitive soul, while man alone had a rational and immaterial soul. They based their proof of the immateriality of the distinctively human soul on the power of the mind to form abstract ideas. 2. Script . & Theol .: The word soul is used chiefly for"that spiritual, reasonable, and immortal substance in man which is the origin of our thoughts, 3767 of our desires, of our reasonings, which distinguishes us from the brute creation, and which bears some resemblance to its Divine Master." ( Cruden .) All Christians admit the responsibility of the soul to God for the deeds done in the body; and the orthodox view that of the Anglican, Roman, and Greek Churches, and of the great di enting bodies -is that at the final judgment the lot of every soul will be irrevocably fixed, and that it will either eternally enjoy the Beatific Vision in heaven or share the endle torments prepared for the devil and his angels. Two other views both of which have found supporters in the Church from early ages are coming increasingly to the front: (1) That of the Restorationists, of whom there are two schools: (a) the Dogmatic, who a ert, and (6) those, represented by Archdeacon Farrar, who expre a hope that all men will be finally saved Soul is largely used in composition, forming compounds, the meanings of which are in general self-explanatory: as, soul -betraying, soul -calming, soul -cheering, soul -deadening, soul -destroying, soul entrancing, soul -refreshing, soul -stirring, soul -vexed, . Cure of souls : Church of England : An ecclesiastical benefice in which parochial duties and the administration of the sacraments are included, primarily vested in the bishop of the diocese, the clergy of each parish acting as his deputies. *soul-bell, s. The pa ing-bell (q. v.). "We call them soul - bells , for that they signify the de. parture of the soul, not for that they help the pa age of the soul."- Bp . Hall . *soul-curer, s. A physician of souls; a parson. ( Shakesp .: Merry Wives , iii. 1.) *soul-fearing, s . Terrifying the soul; appalling. ( Shakesp .: King John , ii.) *soul-foot, s. The same as SOUL-SCOT (q. v.). *soul-scot, *soul-shot, s. Old Eccles. Law : A kind of heriot or funeral duty paid to the church; a mortuary (q.v.). "In Saxon times there was a funeral duty to be paid, called pecunia sepulchral is et symbolum animæ, and in Saxon soul - shot ." -Auliffe: Parergon. *soul-sick, s. Diseased in mind or soul; morally diseased.