noun
: the soul that in the scholastic tradition has independent existence apart from the body and that is the characteristic animating principle of human life as distinguished from animal or vegetable life — compare animal soul , vegetable soul
noun
: the soul that in the scholastic tradition has independent existence apart from the body and that is the characteristic animating principle of human life as distinguished from animal or vegetable life — compare animal soul , vegetable soul
Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012