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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]
       n : a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the
           southern United States [syn: {Negro spiritual}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  183 Moby Thesaurus words for "spiritual":
     Christlike, Christly, God-fearing, Negro spiritual, affective,
     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
  
  

















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