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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- spirituall, spirytual, spirytuall, spyritual, spyrituall, spyrytual, spyrytuall (all obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]From Middle English spiritual, spirituel, from Old French spirituel, from Late Latin spiritualis, from Latin spiritus. Equivalent to spirit + -ual.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈspɪɹɪtʃʊəl/, /ˈspɪɹɪtjʊəl/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəl/, /ˈspɪɹɪ̈t͡ʃul̩/
Audio (US): (file)
Adjective
[edit]spiritual (comparative more spiritual, superlative most spiritual)
- Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.
- Respect towards ancestors is an essential part of Thai spiritual practice.
- Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred, pure; (Christianity, specifically) inspired by the Holy Spirit.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Galatians 6:1:
- Brethren, if a man bee ouertaken in a fault: yee which are spirituall, restore such a one in the spirit of meeknesse, considering thy selfe least thou also be tempted.
- Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural.
- 2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions[1], volume 5, number 1, MDPI, , pages 219–257:
- Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.
- Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal.
- a spiritual substance or being
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 15:44:
- It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
- Of or relating to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.
- Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical.
- the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation
Derived terms
[edit]- antispiritual
- antispiritualism
- antispirituality
- aspiritual
- aspirituality
- cyberspiritual
- ecospiritual
- interspiritual
- nonspiritual
- panspiritual
- pseudospiritual
- psychospiritual
- religiospiritual
- spiritual awakening
- spiritual bypass
- spiritual desertion
- spiritual healing
- spiritual incest
- spiritualisation
- spiritualise
- Spiritualism
- spiritualism
- spiritualist
- spiritualistic
- spirituality
- spiritualization
- spiritualize
- spiritual leader
- spiritually
- spiritual midden
- spiritual naturalism
- spiritual naturalist
- spiritualness
- spiritual sequel
- spiritual violence
- spiritual warfare
- spiritual wifery
- spiritual world
- superspiritual
- theospiritual
- ultraspiritual
- unspiritual
Translations
[edit]of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul
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of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred
of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural
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consisting of spirit; not material
of or relating to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind
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Christianity: controlled and inspired by the Holy Spirit
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not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things
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Noun
[edit]spiritual (plural spirituals)
- A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song.
- Any spiritual function, office, or affair.
- a. 1880, James Russell Lowell, "Dante"
- He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals.
- a. 1880, James Russell Lowell, "Dante"
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]folk song
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References
[edit]- “spiritual”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- spiritual in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- “spiritual”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French spirituel, Late Latin spīrituālis, from Latin spiritus. By surface analysis, spirit + -ual.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]spiritual m or n (feminine singular spirituală, masculine plural spirituali, feminine and neuter plural spirituale)
Declension
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | spiritual | spirituală | spirituali | spirituale | |||
definite | spiritualul | spirituala | spiritualii | spiritualele | ||||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | spiritual | spirituale | spirituali | spirituale | |||
definite | spiritualului | spiritualei | spiritualelor | spiritualilor |
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