Metaphysical and Metaphorical Uses
English-speakers use the word "spirit" in two related contexts, one metaphysical and the other metaphorical.
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“She loved money, but could occasionally part with it, especially to men of learning, whose patronage she affected. She often conversed with them, and bewildered herself in their metaphysical disputes, which neither she nor they themselves understood.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
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