SPIRITUAL

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