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Spiritual - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Spiritual : adj
1: concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church;
"religious texts"; "a nenber if a religious order";
"lords temporal and spiritual"; "spiritual leaders";
"spiritual songs" [syn: religious]
2: concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; "a spiritual
approach to life"; "spiritual fulfillment"; "spiritual
values"; "unearthly love" [syn: unearthly]
3: lacking material body or form or substance; "spiritual
beings"; "the vital transcendental soul belonging to the
spiritual realm"-Lewis Mumford
4: like or being a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a
phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations";
"spiritual tappings at a seance" [syn: apparitional, ghostlike,
ghostly, phantasmal, spectral]
(noun)
1: a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the
southern United States [syn: Negro spiritual]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Spiritual : \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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Spiritual : \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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Spiritual |
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Ahura3: We urge western media not 2 refer 2 Khomeini as Irans Spiritual leader.He doesn't fit the bill,most of Iran despises him! #Iranelection #CNN |
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magical_child: RT @Spungoo: “We are not human beings having a Spiritual experience. We are Spiritual beings having a human experience.” - Teilhard de C ... |
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Spungoo: “We are not human beings having a Spiritual experience. We are Spiritual beings having a human experience.” - Teilhard de Chardin |
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