spiriting

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

“spiriting” is listed under Spirit.

1. To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; as, civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men; — sometimes followed by up.

Many officers and private men spirit up and assist those obstinate people to continue in their rebellion.— Jonathan Swift

2. To convey rapidly and secretly, or mysteriously, as if by the agency of a spirit; to kidnap; — often with away, or off.

The ministry had him spirited away, and carried abroad as a dangerous person.— Arbuthnot & Pope.

I felt as if I had been spirited into some castle of antiquity.— Nathaniel Parker Willis

Spiriting away Law, causing to leave; the offense of inducing a witness to leave a jurisdiction so as to evade process requiring attendance at trial.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54