noun a spiritual function, office, or affair. ·see spirituality, 2.
2. spiritual ·adj consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being.
3. spiritual ·adj of or pertaining to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.
4. spiritual ·adj of or pertaining to the moral feelings or states of the soul, as distinguished from the external actions; reaching and affecting the spirits.
5. spiritual ·adj not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical; as, the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation.
6. spiritual ·adj 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.