spiritual
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys-der.?
Latin spīrō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin spīritus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Late Latin spīrituālisder.
Old French spirituelbor.
Middle English spiritual
English spiritual
From Middle English spiritual, spirituel, from Old French spirituel, from Late Latin spīrituālis, from Latin spīritus. By surface analysis, spirit + -ual.
Inflected forms:
form: more spiritual
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most spiritual
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: spirituall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: spirytual
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: spirytuall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: spyritual
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: spyrituall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: spyrytual
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: spyrytuall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sperichil
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
rare
form: spirituals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spirituall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: spirytual
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: spirytuall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: spyritual
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: spyrituall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: spyrytual
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: spyrytuall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sperichil
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
rare
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.
pos: adj
examples: Respect towards ancestors is an essential part of Thai spiritual practice.
gloss: Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred, pure; (Christianity, specifically) inspired by the Holy Spirit.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
I suppose that’s not surprising, given the spiritual milieu in which I grew up. My mother gasped in sorrow at any news of a bombing in Israel and appropriately “oy veyed” when a Jew was accused of a crime, but she couldn’t tell you what the Shabbat blessing meant.
gloss: Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal.
pos: adj
examples: a spiritual substance or being
It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
gloss: Of or relating to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.
pos: adj
gloss: Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical.
pos: adj
examples: the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation
gloss: A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song.
pos: noun
gloss: Any spiritual function, office, or affair.
pos: noun
examples: He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals.
Synonyms: folk song
Related words: spiritous
spirituous
Derived words: antispiritual
antispiritualism
antispirituality
aspiritual
aspirituality
cyberspiritual
ecospiritual
interspiritual
nonspiritual
panspiritual
pseudospiritual
psychospiritual
religiospiritual
sadospiritual
spiritual awakening
spiritual bypass
spiritual bypassing
spiritual desertion
spiritual healing
spiritual incest
spiritualisation
spiritualise
Spiritualism
spiritualism
spiritualist
spiritualistic
spirituality
spiritualization
spiritualize
spiritual jazz
spiritual leader
spiritually
spiritual midden
spiritual naturalism
spiritual naturalist
spiritualness
spiritual plane
spiritual sequel
spiritual violence
spiritual warfare
spiritual wifery
spiritual world
superspiritual
theospiritual
ultraspiritual
unspiritual
arranged spiritual
concert spiritual
negro spiritual
Negro spiritual
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