SOUL

adj sole.

2. soul ·adj sole.

3. soul ·noun a pure or disembodied spirit.

4. soul ·vi to afford suitable sustenance.

5. soul ·vt to indue with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.

6. soul ·noun the seat of real life or vitality; the source of action; the animating or essential part.

7. soul ·noun a human being; a person;

— a familiar appellation, usually with a qualifying epithet; as, poor soul.

8. soul ·noun the leader; the inspirer; the moving spirit; the heart; as, the soul of an enterprise; an able general is the soul of his army.

9. soul ·noun energy; courage; spirit; fervor; affection, or any other noble manifestation of the heart or moral nature; inherent power or goodness.

10. soul ·noun the spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government;

— sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers;

— sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling, in distinction from intellect;

— sometimes, the intellect only; the understanding; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from feeling. in a more general sense, "an animating, separable, surviving entity, the vehicle of individual personal existence".