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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
spiritual
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a religious/spiritual leader
▪ The Pope is the Roman Catholics’ spiritual leader.
a spiritual dimension
▪ He was interested in the spiritual dimension to art.
emotional/intellectual/spiritual nourishment
▪ a child starved of emotional nourishment
Negro spiritual
parental/spiritual etc guidance
▪ Children need moral guidance.
spiritual enlightenment
▪ the quest for spiritual enlightenment
spiritual guide
▪ my spiritual guide
spiritual purity
▪ spiritual purity
spiritual values
▪ We have replaced our spiritual values with materialism.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ His blindness was more spiritual and endeared him to her.
▪ And if they are more numerous, then maybe the dead possess more spiritual power as well.
▪ I mean, I would have expected something a bit more spiritual for a time like this.
▪ Some are more spiritual in their approach.
▪ The aspirant towards a more spiritual way of life will be thrown entirely off the scent.
▪ One group favored commercial entertainment and the other a more spiritual sensibility.
■ NOUN
adviser
▪ Her role as spiritual adviser, teacher and leader typifies the value of women in the Church.
▪ Their spiritual adviser, their role model and beau celebre, was Willis In-Your-Face Mack.
▪ The investigator, bag man and spiritual adviser.
aspect
▪ The popular health movement also looks at health in a holistic way - the physical, mental and spiritual aspects.
▪ Be that as it may, I shall attempt to explain the spiritual aspect in my own terms.
▪ Never under-estimate the power of the mind-body, which can either trap or liberate the spiritual aspect of self.
▪ Is there a spiritual aspect of life which we usually ignore?
development
▪ In our own spiritual development, steady, significant long-term life-changes often occur too slowly to notice.
▪ The mishaps that befall Van Orton seem more random and jarring, though, than cohesively engineered to facilitate his spiritual development.
▪ Mention this to most clergymen and they will rightly say that spiritual development is far more important than a degree.
▪ But such a love implies a deeper readiness of understanding, a higher spiritual development than the first.
▪ Their spiritual development must be the responsibility of the clergy, perhaps with the help of others.
▪ In the West we have always been clear about our priorities in spiritual development.
▪ A neutral stance in relation to moral and spiritual development of pupils is not acceptable to the Catholic community especially in the Catholic school.
dimension
▪ The solution might well be an ecumenical link, or a secular organisation where we could bring a spiritual dimension.
▪ The same may be said of the renewed attention to the spiritual dimension of life.
▪ The links between the spiritual dimension and religion are in fact close.
▪ The spiritual dimension in creative effort comes from that honest pursuit.
▪ What happens when the spiritual dimension is recognised in treatment and rehabilitation?
▪ People can immerse themselves in the spiritual dimension without being religious at all.
▪ Just as there is a material dimension there is a spiritual dimension.
▪ I mean, what about the spiritual dimension?
direction
▪ If anyone wants specific spiritual direction they seek to give it.
▪ And we always felt we had to have a spiritual foundation, a spiritual direction.
▪ She does not claim any immediate spiritual direction.
▪ Thirdly, I hope to indicate ways in which spiritual direction might be developed as a means of nurture within the church.
▪ At this point we need to say what spiritual direction is not.
▪ Elizabeth Fry was more explicit about spiritual direction.
▪ The basic premise of spiritual direction is that in order to grow we need each other.
director
▪ At times he conceived of his role at Holy Trinity as less a pastor than a communal spiritual director.
▪ A spiritual director is not a problem-solver to whom we run for infallible answers.
▪ It was with this spirit that she turned to her spiritual director for guidance and advice.
▪ But Rolle not only did not have a spiritual director, he had absolutely no intention of getting one.
▪ Drawing on his background as a spiritual director, Jim had decided that Holy Trinity would discern its way out of trouble.
▪ Out of this material will emerge some of the items you may want to discuss with a spiritual director.
▪ When Father Sobierajski had finished, the retreatants broke into smaller groups led by their spiritual directors.
discipline
▪ Tears and weeping became a recognized part of spiritual discipline for many mystics.
▪ When he was a young man, Jim thought of Lent as a season of contrition, spiritual discipline and personal purification.
▪ It may be interpreted as a spiritual discipline necessary to preserve our humanity and to promote the service of others.
▪ Making the right effort: accepting the need to pursue moral, mental and spiritual disciplines without losing heart. 7.
enlightenment
▪ Certainly later writers warn against mistaking unusual sense phenomena for genuine spiritual enlightenment.
▪ I listened to their tales of spiritual enlightenment, past lives, cosmic futures.
▪ How did these madmen get the reputation in the West for possessing vast spiritual enlightenment?
experience
▪ The extent to which the senses actually play a role in Rolle's spiritual experience has been argued.
▪ For most parents, children are, if not sacred beings, then a source of a kind of spiritual experience.
▪ Last April, nearly a year ago, I had a most moving spiritual experience.
▪ They possess the concreteness of imaginative, spiritual experience rather than the concreteness of quotidian reality.
▪ This was the obedience which remained the foundation of his spiritual experience and of his admonitions to others.
▪ He returned home and began reading about altered states and spiritual experiences.
▪ For the nationalist, the voyage of discovery is a profound spiritual experience.
▪ And their presence at that time had given me almost a spiritual experience of being a father to little people.
gift
▪ And the same process can be true of the other spiritual gifts.
▪ Love, then, stands supreme as the more excellent motivation for the manifestation of spiritual gifts.
▪ The celibacy that is accepted in the New Testament is one that comes as the result of a spiritual gift.
growth
▪ The sixth step refers to the beginning of a lifelong process of spiritual growth.
▪ According to the ancient wisdom, spiritual growth involves transcending the limited and short-sighted Ego to make way for the Self.
▪ For centuries, material wealth and abundance has been seen as incompatible with spiritual growth.
▪ It is a stepping stone in my spiritual growth.
▪ Sexuality, likewise, can be a wonderful vehicle for personal and spiritual growth.
▪ Chances then arise to transfer that energy into another field - work, relationships, or spiritual growth.
guidance
▪ His purpose was therefore to seek spiritual guidance rather than merely collect some ritual instruments and headgear.
▪ By looking to the Bible and seeking spiritual guidance, he is taking steps to reconcile our differences.
▪ The churches also carried out the function of education in spiritual guidance to a population largely illiterate.
▪ Our president, who has been elected to lead us into the new millennium, needs spiritual guidance like all of us.
▪ What then of emotional, even spiritual guidance?
home
▪ And I knew I had found my spiritual home.
▪ He probably thinks Lee Chapman's house is his new spiritual home.
▪ The Dons left their spiritual home because of safety concerns in the wake of the Taylor Report.
▪ It's my spiritual home, although I don't worship there now.
▪ Eric attempting to find a new spiritual home?
journey
▪ Hundreds of friends found Hugh Bishop a supportive fellow pilgrim on their own spiritual journeys.
▪ Few seminaries and hardly any universities are equipped to help students enter into a mystical quest or spiritual journey.
▪ The first part of Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory of the spiritual journey which had been described in Grace Abounding.
▪ Some would say I was being true to my own spiritual journey.
▪ They turned their pages in perfect harmony and experienced a decent run through of a difficult text rather than an intense spiritual journey.
▪ For the rest of this address I will describe its role for me in my spiritual journey.
leader
▪ Even the medieval church's spiritual leader, St Bernard of Clairvaux, wanted an explanation.
▪ Just think: The Raiders might be able to get the chemistry-destroying, morale-busting George straight-up for their spiritual leader Hoss.
▪ But Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the paramount spiritual leader of Shas, is committed to peace.
▪ The young, the bold, the lowly paid and overworked, acknowledged him as their spiritual leader.
▪ Payne snorts when Yarbrough suggests he act more the spiritual leader.
▪ The importance of the Imams as spiritual leaders is at the hearts of Shiite doctrine.
▪ The Lutherans asked Amsterdam to please send them a new spiritual leader, preferably an unmarried man.
life
▪ His spiritual life would follow the same unorthodox and aggressively assertive pattern.
▪ Both sport and the spiritual life grow out of our human urge to express the richness of existence.
▪ All from personal experience agree that freemasonry brings the end of spiritual life in a church. 3.
▪ Some have tried to live completely spiritual lives, but the attempt is as far as they get.
▪ But if the essence of the spiritual life is dying to the self then the religious man must sacrifice.
▪ Hence the shallowness of their spiritual lives and the weakness of their commitment to prayer.
▪ We realize that the spiritual life matters infinitely more than all the material possessions or human status we once may have enjoyed.
▪ I take my spiritual life very seriously, and there were times when I was running on empty.
matter
▪ The Church was told to concentrate on purely spiritual matters and not to medal in matters to do with politics.
▪ In the highest rank, the brahmins were the priests, masters of spiritual matters.
▪ Its jurisdiction was principally on moral and spiritual matters.
▪ These are no doubt spiritual matters, but they have their analogue in the material world.
▪ Both Luther and Calvin accepted that secular rulers had no jurisdiction over spiritual matters.
▪ But these were all in areas circumscribed by the church as spiritual matters.
▪ Mahfouz was applying the spirit of scientific inquiry to spiritual matters.
▪ Prior to the middle of this century, the Catholic Church had concerned itself predominantly with spiritual matters.
need
▪ Unfortunately, just as the emotional needs of mentally disordered people are often ignored, so too are their spiritual needs.
▪ Because their physical needs were so profound, there was not enough time to take their psychological and spiritual needs seriously.
▪ Give enough time to yourself and your own physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs.
▪ Because of the great spiritual needs of the people, Mrs. Baxter urged the building of another meeting house in Bloomsbury.
▪ The first two chapters offer a definition of spirituality and a way of identifying spiritual need.
▪ In his preaching he sought to make the Bible relevant to the spiritual needs of the people.
▪ She was also deeply concerned for the spiritual needs of her relatives and household servants.
▪ It was failing to respond to the demand to make religion more accessible was failing to respond to the spiritual needs.
power
▪ But she has such power, such spiritual power.
▪ And if they are more numerous, then maybe the dead possess more spiritual power as well.
▪ We have often a choice: self pity or spiritual power through suffering.
▪ The important thing about shamans is that they exist in order to bring spiritual power to bear on human pain.
▪ That is not historic or accurate but it has power, unbelievable spiritual power for Christians.
▪ Early art, especially the wall art and the figurines, show the spiritual power of the female body.
▪ So how can these evil spiritual powers affect our lives?
quest
▪ The spiritual quest is to discover order in our consciousness.
▪ We should encourage the president in his spiritual quest.
▪ The mental powers, which made that spiritual quest possible, were the fount of human uniqueness - not a cosmic position.
▪ Harcourt-Reilly takes her out of her conventional life, and leads her towards a spiritual quest and eventual martyrdom.
reality
▪ This will help us not to confuse physical pleasure with true happiness or the spiritual reality of joy.
▪ Can there be any spiritual reality transcending this material existence?
▪ Our high desires for spiritual reality are transmuted into the sordid quest for consumerism and materialism.
▪ At the other extreme, light can be thought of as the final and complete revelation of spiritual reality.
▪ Our task is to relate these spiritual realities to the theme of the biblical mythology of the deep.
▪ In other words, we see beyond the material world to spiritual reality.
sense
▪ It has neither Locke's confidence in reason nor Wesley's confidence in his spiritual sense.
▪ Educate childen with a spiritual sense of service to others and respectful interaction with nature?
▪ However, like that about poverty, this saying talks about mourning in a spiritual sense.
▪ Both neighborhoods had a strong spiritual sense, a different musical culture, unique foods, and unappreciated patois.
▪ The act of blessing and the dawn brought him then to his physical and spiritual senses.
▪ Not only in a simple financial sense but also in a spiritual sense.
▪ Mikhail Vologsky was essentially a loner, in both the physical and spiritual sense.
value
▪ He appears to be offering a total cinema in which technique, story, social setting, and spiritual values came together.
▪ Ethical or spiritual values are not inherited, they are learned.
▪ The spiritual values are not part of the intellect.
▪ At the center of one of these glyphs were the words inner core spiritual values.
▪ The belt, like my bearskin necklace which I am wearing somewhat uncomfortably under my shirt, has spiritual value.
▪ We have replaced our spiritual values and wisdom with materialism.
▪ He told me once that to his mind organized religion destroyed moral and spiritual values.
▪ Many Eastern cultures put spiritual values before material values.
world
▪ He did not believe in a spiritual world.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ In the 13th century Jalaludin Rumi wrote poetry about his spiritual life.
▪ Just as the emotional needs of the mentally disabled are overlooked, so too are their spiritual needs.
▪ She came seeking spiritual guidance.
▪ the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people
▪ The decision was made by the spiritual leaders of the tribe.
▪ The last sacrament represents the final step in Christ's spiritual journey.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both sport and the spiritual life grow out of our human urge to express the richness of existence.
▪ Both were seen as sources of disease, bodily or spiritual, moral corruptions which were spreading throughout the land.
▪ But the spiritual agents were not restricted only to people to do their work.
▪ He worked to prevent the Jesuits from acquiring land and influence, though he supported their spiritual ministry to the Catholic settlers.
▪ Just think: The Raiders might be able to get the chemistry-destroying, morale-busting George straight-up for their spiritual leader Hoss.
▪ Modernist artists increasingly transgressed boundaries and borders in what appears to have been an intellectual, physical and spiritual restlessness.
▪ That is not historic or accurate but it has power, unbelievable spiritual power for Christians.
▪ This mapping is spiritual, but also practical, for people need to know the patterns of nature.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Believe it or not, he only had two or three songs he knew other than spirituals.
▪ If the personal is the spiritual, the spiritual is also the political.
▪ Or the Morgan State University Choir singing spirituals?
▪ The spirituals ask no pity-for their words ride on the strongest of melodies, the melody of faith.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spiritual

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.

    It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
    --1 Cor. xv. 44.

  2. Of or pertaining to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.

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

    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.

  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.

    That I may impart unto you some spiritual gift.
    --Rom. i. ll.

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

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

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

    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.

Spiritual

Spiritual \Spir"it*u*al\, n. A spiritual function, office, or affair. See Spirituality, 2.

He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals.
--Lowell.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
spiritual

c.1300, "of or concerning the spirit" (especially in religious aspects), from Old French spirituel, esperituel (12c.) or directly from a Medieval Latin ecclesiastical use of Latin spiritualis "of or pertaining to breath, breathing, wind, or air; pertaining to spirit," from spiritus "of breathing, of the spirit" (see spirit (n.)). Meaning "of or concerning the church" is attested from mid-14c. Related: Spiritually.\n\nIn avibus intellige studia spiritualia, in animalibus exercitia corporalia

[Richard of St. Victoror (1110-1173): "Watch birds to understand how spiritual things move, animals to understand physical motion." - E.P.]

spiritual

"African-American religious song," 1866, from spiritual (adj.). Earlier "a spiritual thing" (1660s).

Wiktionary
spiritual

a. 1 Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul. 2 Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred. 3 Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural. 4 Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal. 5 Of or relating to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual. 6 (context Christianity English) Controlled and inspired by the Holy Spirit; pure; holy. 7 Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical. n. 1 A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song. 2 Any spiritual function, office, or affair.

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WordNet
spiritual

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

spiritual

  1. adj. 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]

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Wikipedia
Spiritual (music)

Spirituals (or Negro spirituals) are generally Christian songs that were created by African slaves in the United States. Spirituals were originally an oral tradition that imparted Christian values while also describing the hardships of slavery. Although spirituals were originally unaccompanied monophonic (unison) songs, they are best known today in harmonized choral arrangements. This historic group of uniquely American songs is now recognized as a distinct genre of music.

Spiritual

Spiritual may refer to:

  • Spiritual (music), an African American song, usually with a Christian religious text
  • Lords Spiritual, clergy of the established Church of England who serve in the House of Lords
  • Spiritual possession, a concept of many religions, where it is believed that a demon may take temporary control of a human body
  • Spirituality, a concern with matters of the spirit
  • Spiritual but not religious, a religious categorization
  • Supernatural, refers to forces and phenomena which are beyond ordinary scientific understanding
  • A branch of the 13th-century Franciscans espousing poverty as obligatory.
  • "Spiritual", a song by Katy Perry form Prism
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Usage examples of "spiritual".

It was naturally supposed, that the pious and humble monks, who had renounced the world to accomplish the work of their salvation, were the best qualified for the spiritual government of the Christians.

Roosevelt in a position, in spite of the enormous amount of work which must rest upon him in his own country, to recognize of his own accord all these inner spiritual and mental impressions of other peoples and their governments?

While the Convention is in session and the accredited delegates have already elected from among the believers throughout the country the members of the National Spiritual Assembly for the current year, it is of infinite value and a supreme necessity that as far as possible all matters requiring immediate decision should be fully and publicly considered, and an endeavor be made to obtain after mature deliberation, unanimity in vital decisions.

Galilean kingdom preaching movement he was a part of, one that had developed some idea of a teaching founder whom Paul shows no knowledge of, with an allegorical rendering of the spiritual Christ myth placed in the same earthly setting.

There is no less than a score of mystic allegorizing sects3 who reduce almost every thing in the Koran to symbol, or spiritual signification, and some of whom as the Sufis are the most rapt and imaginative of all the enthusiastic devotees in the world.

Somewhat to the left of the Antitrinitarian sects were a few men, who had hardly any followers, who may be called, for want of a better term, Spiritual Reformers.

An elegant supper was provided for the entertainment of the bishop, and his Christian friends were permitted for the last time to enjoy his society, whilst the streets were filled with a multitude of the faithful, anxious and alarmed at the approaching fate of their spiritual father.

It is mostly the result of spiritual influence of the assimilating group on the newcomers, which is natural and complete when there are no strong barriers between the groups.

And as the body is sustained by absorbing nutrition from matter, so the soul is sustained by assimilating the spiritual substances of the invisible kingdom.

For in continuance of the vertical principle of the plant, the pistil and carpel represent the male aspect in the process of spiritual anastomosis, and the mobile, wind- or insect-borne pollen, in continuing the spiral principle, represents the female part.

Living religious traditions begin to degenerate when their followers replace effective spiritual purification, attentional training, and contemplative inquiry with sterile liturgies, ritualistic meditations, and contemplative exercises pursued with the sense that the practitioner already knows their outcome.

Although a place is differently attributed to corporeal and spiritual substances, still in either case this remains in common, that the higher place is assigned to the worthier.

The Gnostics agreed in attributing evil to matter, and made the means of redemption to consist in fastings and scourgings of the flesh, with denial of all its cravings, and in lofty spiritual contemplations.

Otherwise I continue to rejoice in your ancient spiritual heirloom, and look forward to the day when we can continue to investigate our ancestors through your autogenic clairvoyance.

Cardinal Bellarmine said that there was only one truth and that was spiritual truth.