Sekirov Dictionary

spiritual

UK /ˈspɪɹɪtʃʊəl/US /ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/

adjective 6
noun 3
forms 4

adjective6

•
belonging to the soul and to the part of a person that cannot be seen or touched
- Respect towards ancestors is an essential part of Thai spiritual practice.
•
Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred, pure; (Christianity, specifically) inspired by the Holy Spirit.
- Brethren, if a man bee ouertaken in a fault: yee which are spirituall, restore such a one in the spirit of meeknesse, considering thy selfe least thou also be tempted. — 1611
Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical.
Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural.
•
Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal.
- It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. — 1611
Of or relating to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.

noun3

A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song.
•
Any spiritual function, office, or affair.
- He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals. — 1880
•
(historical) A member of a branch of the Franciscan order that advocated simple dress and renounced the owning of property.
- But in the years that followed, the cause of the Spirituals became championed by far more substantial figures within the church. — 2007

forms

Spirituals · spirituals · more spiritual · most spiritual

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