Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - spiritual
Spiritual
spiritual
adj. & n. --adj. 1 of or concerning the spirit as opposed to matter. 2 concerned with sacred or religious things; holy; divine; inspired (the spiritual life; spiritual songs). 3 (of the mind etc.) refined, sensitive; not concerned with the material. 4 (of a relationship etc.) concerned with the soul or spirit etc., not with external reality (his spiritual home). --n. = Negro spiritual. Phrases and idioms spiritual courts ecclesiastical courts. Derivatives spirituality n. spiritually adv. spiritualness n. Etymology: ME f. OF spirituel f. L spiritualis (as SPIRIT)
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I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French & Late Latin; Anglo-French espirital, ~, from Late Latin ~is, from Latin, of breathing, of wind, from spiritus Date: 14th century of, relating to, consisting of, or affecting the spirit ; incorporeal , 2. of or relating to sacred matters , ecclesiastical rather than lay or temporal , concerned with religious values, related or joined in spirit , 5. of or relating to supernatural beings or phenomena, of, relating to, or involving ~ism ; ~istic, ~ly adverb ~ness noun II. noun Date: 1582 things of a ~, ecclesiastical, or religious nature, a religious song usually of a deeply emotional character that was developed especially among blacks in the southern United States, any of a party of 13th and 14th century Franciscans advocating strict observance of a rule of poverty for their order ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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