SPIRITUAL

spiritual

(adjective) lacking material body or form or substance; “spiritual beings”; “the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm”-Lewis Mumford

apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual

(adjective) resembling or characteristic of a phantom; “a ghostly face at the window”; “a phantasmal presence in the room”; “spectral emanations”; “spiritual tappings at a seance”

religious, spiritual

(adjective) concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church; “religious texts”; “a member of a religious order”; “lords temporal and spiritual”; “spiritual leaders”; “spiritual songs”

spiritual, unearthly

(adjective) concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; “a spiritual approach to life”; “spiritual fulfillment”; “spiritual values”; “unearthly love”

spiritual, Negro spiritual

(noun) a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Noun

Spiritual (plural Spirituals)

(Christianity, historical) A member of a branch of the Franciscan order that advocated simple dress and renounced the owning of property.

Etymology

Adjective

spiritual (comparative more spiritual, superlative most spiritual)

Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.

Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred.

Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural.

Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal.

Of or relating to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.

(Christianity) Controlled and inspired by the Holy Spirit; pure; holy.

Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical.

Noun

spiritual (plural spirituals)

A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song.

Any spiritual function, office, or affair.

Synonyms

• folk song

Source: Wiktionary

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Spir"it*u*al, a. Etym: [L. spiritualis: cf. F. spirituel. See Spirit.]

1. Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. 1 Cor. xv. 44.

2. Of or pertaining to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.

3. Of or pertaining to the moral feelings or states of the soul, as distinguished from the external actions; reaching and affecting the spirits. God's law is spiritual; it is a transcript of the divine nature, and extends its authority to the acts of the soul of man. Sir T. Browne.

4. Of or pertaining to the soul or its affections as influenced by the Spirit; controlled and inspired by the divine Spirit; proceeding from the Holy Spirit; pure; holy; divine; heavenly-minded; -- opposed to carnal. That I may impart unto you some spiritual gift. Rom. i. ll. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings. Eph. i. 3. If a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one. Gal. vi. 1.

5. Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical; as, the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation. Spiritual coadjuctor. (Eccl.) See the Note under Jesuit.

– Spiritual court (Eccl. Law), an ecclesiastical court, or a court having jurisdiction in ecclesiastical affairs; a court held by a bishop or other ecclesiastic.

Spir"it*u*al, n.

Definition: A spiritual function, office, or affair. See Spirituality, 2. He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals. Lowell.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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