Spiritual
['spɪrɪtʃʊəl;-tjʊəl] or ['spɪrɪtʃʊəl]
Definition
(noun.) a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States.
(adj.) lacking material body or form or substance; 'spiritual beings'; 'the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm'-Lewis Mumford .
(adj.) concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; 'a spiritual approach to life'; 'spiritual fulfillment'; 'spiritual values'; 'unearthly love' .
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Definition
(a.) Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the moral feelings or states of the soul, as distinguished from the external actions; reaching and affecting the spirits.
(a.) 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.
(a.) Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical; as, the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation.
(n.) A spiritual function, office, or affair. See Spirituality, 2.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Immaterial, incorporeal, ethereal, ghostly.[2]. Mental, intellectual, ideal, abstract.[3]. Holy, divine, pure.[4]. Ecclesiastical, not lay, not secular.[5]. Internal, not literal.
Editor: Stephen
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Divine, religions, holy, ghostly, ethical, immaterial, incorporeal,intellectual
ANT:Carnal, fleshly, unspiritual, gross, material, sensuous
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Examples
- She did not believe in the spiritual world--it was an affectation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This is a determinant which burrows beneath our ordinary classification of progressive and reactionary to the spiritual habits of a period. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We have almost no spiritual weapons against classicalism: universities, churches, newspapers are by-products of a commercial success; we have no tradition of intellectual revolt. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There, he thought, lay an opening towards spiritual, perhaps towards material rescue. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I fear, I know, that the couch needs spiritual as well as medical consolation. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- That I don't teach his opinions--which he calls spiritual religion; and that I have no time to spare. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Is THAT spiritual, her bullying, her conceit, her sordid materialism? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Ha, she spiritual--SPIRITUAL, she! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And was not Ursula's way of emotional intimacy, emotional and physical, was it not just as dangerous as Hermione's abstract spiritual intimacy? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Nice cutting is her function: she divides With spiritual edge the millet-seed, And makes intangible savings. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In a kind of spiritual trance, she yielded, she gave way, and all was dark. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They have a general belief in Manitous, or spiritual beings, one of them being spoken of as the Great Spirit. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Imaginative writers have supposed that he had great spiritual struggles, that he went out into the desert in agonies of doubt and divine desire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The American college student has the gravity and mental habits of a Supreme Court judge; his wild oats are rarely spiritual; the critical, analytical habit of mind is distrusted. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Words that were scarcely uttered when their theme was announced as in faithful attendance below, desiring counsel on a spiritual matter. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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