Obs. rare. [f. L. spīritus SPIRIT sb.] Spirituosity.
1662. H. Stubbe, Indian Nectar, vii. 137. The spirituascency of the seed little. Ibid., 139. A … resemblance, in its colour, consistence, and spirituascency, to the white of an Egg.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., XIX. 831. Aromaticks … correct that dulness and deficient spirituascence … of the Stomach.
