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Spiritual Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Spiritual?
[n] a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States
[adj] lacking material body or form or substance; "spiritual beings"; "the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm"-Lewis Mumford [adj] like or being a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance" [adj] concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church; "religious texts"; "monks of a religious order"; "lords temporal and spiritual"; "spiritual leaders"; "spiritual songs" [adj] concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; "a spiritual approach to life"; "spiritual fulfillment"; "spiritual values"; "unearthly love" [adj] relating to or concerned with religion or spiritual things; especially dedicated to service in a religion; "a monk of a religious order"; "spiritual leaders"; "religious books"; "spiritual songs" Synonyms | Synonyms for Spiritual: apparitional | ghostlike | ghostly | immaterial | incorporeal | Negro spiritual | phantasmal | religious | religious | sacred | spectral | supernatural | unearthly | unworldly Related Terms | Find terms related to Spiritual: See Also | religious song Spiritual In Webster's Dictionary \Spir"it*u*al\, a. [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. A spiritual function, office, or affair. See {Spirituality}, 2. He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals. --Lowell. |
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