spiritual

• spirituall, spirytual, spirytuall, spyritual, spyrituall, spyrytual, spyrytuall

Borrowed from Old French spirituel, from Late Latin spiritualis, from Latin spiritus.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈspɪɹɪtʃʊəl/, /ˈspɪɹɪtjʊəl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈspɪɹɪtʃuəl/, /ˈspɪɹɪ̈t͡ʃul̩/

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spiritual (comparative more spiritual, superlative most spiritual)

1. Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.

   Respect towards ancestors is an essential part of Thai spiritual practice.

   • Sir Thomas Browne

     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.

2. Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred.
3. Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural.
4. Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal.

   a spiritual substance or being

   • Bible, 1. Corinthians xv. 44

     It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.

5. Of or relating to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.
6. (Christianity) Controlled and inspired by the Holy Spirit; pure; holy.
   • Bible, Gal. vi. 1

     If a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one.

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

   the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation

spiritual (plural spirituals)

1. A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song.
2. Any spiritual function, office, or affair.

   He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals. — Lowell.

• folk song

Borrowed from French spirituel, Late Latin spīrituālis, from Latin spiritus.

• IPA^(key): /spirituˈal/

spiritual m or n (feminine singular spirituală, masculine plural spirituali, feminine and neuter plural spirituale)

1. spiritual

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