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)