spiritual

adj

1. Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.

   “Respect towards ancestors is an essential part of Thai spiritual practice.”

2. Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred, pure; (Christianity, specifically) inspired by the Holy Spirit.

   “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.”

3. Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural.

   “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.”

4. Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal.

   “a spiritual substance or being”

   “It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.”

5. Of or relating to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.
6. Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical.

   “the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation”

noun

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.

   “He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals.”

3. (historical)A member of a branch of the Franciscan order that advocated simple dress and renounced the owning of property.

   “But in the years that followed, the cause of the Spirituals became championed by far more substantial figures within the church.”