Definition of Geist

1. Noun. a ghost, apparition, the spirit of an individual or group ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Geist

1. a spirit [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Geist

geic acid
geigerite
geikielite
geiko
geikos
gein
geire
geis
geisha
geisha ball
geisha girl
geishas
geison
geissler tube
geist (current term)
geists
geit
geitonogamy
geitost
geits
gekkonid
gekkonids
gel
gel bracelet
gel diffusion
gel diffusion precipitin tests
gel diffusion precipitin tests in one dimension
gel diffusion precipitin tests in two dimensions
gel diffusion reactions

Literary usage of Geist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science and Health: With Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy (1912)
"Im geist gibt es keine Materie, ebensowenig wie es in der Wahr- 9 heit Irrtum oder im Guten Böses gibt. Die Vorstellung, daß es wirkliche Substanz-Materie ..."

2. Meyers Grosses Konversations-Lexikon: Ein Nachschlagewerk des allgemeinen by Hermann Julius Meyer (1902)
"... das in zwölf oder drei Artikeln den Glau den an Gott den Vater, den Lohn und den heiligen geist ausspricht. Nach der erst in, 4. ..."

3. The Contemporary Review (1876)
"BISHOP BUTLER AND THE ZEIT-geist. II. BUTLER designs to found a sure system of morals, and, in order to found it, he tells us how we originally came by all ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"BISHOP BUTLER AND THE ZEIT-geist.« Is Scotland, I imagine, you have in your philosophical studies small experience of the reverent devotion formerly, ..."

5. Culture & Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism : And by Matthew Arnold (1883)
"geist ' is forbidden by nature to flourish in an aristocracy. " So do not," he continued, " suffer yourself to be deceived by parallels drawn from times ..."

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