SPIRITUAL, adjective 1. Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as a spiritual substance or being. The soul of man is spiritual 2. Mental; intellectual; as spiritual armor. 3. Not gross; refined from external things; not sensual; relative to mind only; as a spiritual and refined religion. 4. Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical; as the spiritual functions of the clergy; the lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation. 5. Pertaining to spirit or to the affections; pure; holy. Gods law is spiritual; it is a transcript of the divine nature, and extends its authority to the acts of the soul of man. 6. Pertaining to the renewed nature of man; as spiritual life. 7. Not fleshly; not material; as spiritual sacrifices. 1 Peter 2:5. 8. Pertaining to divine things; as spiritual songs. Ephesians 5:19. SPIRITUAL court, an ecclesiastical court; a court held by a bishop or other ecclesiastic.
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