spiritual

spiritual
    adj 1: 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" [syn: {religious}, {spiritual}]
    2: concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; "a spiritual
       approach to life"; "spiritual fulfillment"; "spiritual
       values"; "unearthly love" [syn: {spiritual}, {unearthly}]
    3: lacking material body or form or substance; "spiritual
       beings"; "the vital transcendental soul belonging to the
       spiritual realm"-Lewis Mumford
    4: 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" [syn:
       {apparitional}, {ghostlike}, {ghostly}, {phantasmal},
       {spectral}, {spiritual}]
    n 1: a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the
         southern United States [syn: {spiritual}, {Negro
         spiritual}]
    

Spiritual \Spir"it*u*al\, n.
   A spiritual function, office, or affair. See {Spirituality},
   2.
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         He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to
         the emperor in temporals.                --Lowell.
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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.
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            It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual
            body.                                 --1 Cor. xv.
                                                  44.
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   2. Of or pertaining to the intellectual and higher endowments
      of the mind; mental; intellectual.
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   3. Of or pertaining to the moral feelings or states of the
      soul, as distinguished from the external actions; reaching
      and affecting the spirits.
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            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.
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   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}.
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            That I may impart unto you some spiritual gift.
                                                  --Rom. i. ll.
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            Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
            Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual
            blessings.                            --Eph. i. 3.
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            If a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are
            spiritual, restore such an one.       --Gal. vi. 1.
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   5. Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things;
      ecclesiastical; as, the spiritual functions of the clergy;
      lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation.
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   {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.
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183 Moby Thesaurus words for "spiritual":
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      airy, angelic, anthem, arcane, asomatous, astral, automatist,
      awesome, awful, bodiless, cantata, canticle, cerebral,
      characteristic, chorale, church, church music, churchly,
      clairaudient, clairsentient, clairvoyant, clerical, conceptive,
      conceptual, constitutional, decarnate, decarnated, devotional,
      discarnate, disembodied, dispositional, divine, doxology,
      ecclesiastical, ectoplasmic, eerie, elevated, emotional,
      endopsychic, esoteric, ethereal, etheric, extramundane,
      extrasensory, extraterrestrial, fey, ghostish, ghostlike, ghostly,
      ghosty, godlike, godly, godly-minded, good, gospel, gospel music,
      heady, heavenly, high, high-minded, holy, holy-minded, hymn,
      hymn-tune, hymnody, hymnology, hypernormal, hyperphysical,
      immaterial, impalpable, imponderable, incorporate, incorporeal,
      ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible, innate, inner,
      insubstantial, intangible, intellectual, intelligent, internal,
      introit, inviolable, inviolate, lofty, mass, mediumistic, mental,
      metaphysical, motet, mysterious, noetic, nonmaterial, nonphysical,
      noological, numinous, occult, offertory, offertory sentence,
      oratorio, otherworldly, paean, passion, phantasmal, phantasmic,
      phantom, phantomic, phantomlike, phrenic, preterhuman,
      preternatural, preternormal, pretersensual, priestly, prosodion,
      psalm, psalmody, psychic, psychical, psychokinetic, psychologic,
      psychological, psychosensory, pure, pure in heart, purehearted,
      rational, reasoning, recessional, religious, requiem, requiem mass,
      righteous, sacerdotal, sacred, sacred music, sacrosanct, saintlike,
      saintly, second-sighted, seraphic, shadowy, specterlike, spectral,
      spiritual-minded, spiritualistic, subjective, superhuman,
      supernatural, supernormal, superphysical, supersensible,
      supersensual, supramundane, supranatural, telekinetic, telepathic,
      temperamental, thinking, transcendental, transmundane, unearthly,
      unembodied, unextended, unfleshly, unhuman, unphysical,
      unspeakable, unsubstantial, untouchable, unutterable, unworldly,
      venerable, white spiritual, wraithlike, wraithy