spiritus asper

They marched through the streets singing the "Veni creator spiritus," and crying out: "Pray, for the times are at hand."

Anderson thought it sounded like the last words of the Psalter, "omnis spiritus laudet Dominum," but he could not be sure.

Inclusus variis famulatur spiritus astris, Et vivum certis motibus urget opus.'

He accounted for hysteria, for instance, by the union of the spiritus with imperfectly purified blood.