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a. [ L. spiritualis: cf. F. spirituel. See Spirit. ] 1. Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. 1 Cor. xv. 44. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of or pertaining to the moral feelings or states of the soul, as distinguished from the external actions; reaching and affecting the spirits. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

That I may impart unto you some spiritual gift. Rom. i. ll. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings. Eph. i. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

If a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one. Gal. vi. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical; as, the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quality or state of being spiritual. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) The doctrine, in opposition to the materialists, that all which exists is spirit, or soul -- that what is called the external world is either a succession of notions impressed on the mind by the Deity, as maintained by Berkeley, or else the mere educt of the mind itself, as taught by Fichte. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A belief that departed spirits hold intercourse with mortals by means of physical phenomena, as by rapping, or during abnormal mental states, as in trances, or the like, commonly manifested through a person of special susceptibility, called a medium; spiritism; the doctrines and practices of spiritualists. [ 1913 Webster ]

What is called spiritualism should, I think, be called a mental species of materialism. R. H. Hutton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who maintains the doctrine of spiritualism. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who believes in direct intercourse with departed spirits, through the agency of persons commonly called mediums, by means of physical phenomena; one who attempts to maintain such intercourse; a spiritist. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Spiritualistic. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to, or connected with, spiritualism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Spiritualities [ L. spiritualitas: cf. F. spiritualité. ] 1. The quality or state of being spiritual; incorporeality; heavenly-mindedness. [ 1913 Webster ]

A pleasure made for the soul, suitable to its spirituality. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

If this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth nearest to spirituality. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

Much of our spirituality and comfort in public worship depends on the state of mind in which we come. Bickersteth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities. [ 1913 Webster ]

During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Five entire subsidies were granted to the king by the spirituality. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of spiritualizing, or the state of being spiritualized. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Spiritualized p. pr. & vb. n. Spiritualizing ] [ Cf. F. spiritualiser. ] 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. [ 1913 Webster ]

This seen in the clear air, and the whole spiritualized by endless recollections, fills the eye and the heart more forcibly than I can find words to say. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; -- opposed to literalize. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Old Chem.) To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. [ 1913 Webster ]