Spiritual

Origin

Middle English, from Anglo-French & Late Latin; Anglo-French espirital, spiritual, from Late Latin spiritualis, from Latin, of breathing, of wind, from spiritus 14th Century

Definitions

• 1: of, relating to, consisting of, or affecting the spirit or soul : incorporeal <spiritual needs>
• 2a : of or relating to God or sacred matters <spiritual songs>

b : ecclesiastical rather than lay or temporal <spiritual authority> <lords spiritual>

• 3: concerned with religious values
• 4: related or joined in spirit <our spiritual home> <his spiritual heir>
• 5a : of or relating to supernatural beings or phenomena

b : of, relating to, or involving spiritualism : spiritualistic

Spiritual may also refer to:

• Spirituality, the state of spirit or more commonly, an interest in matters of the spirit.
• Supernatural, refers to forces and phenomena which are beyond ordinary scientific understanding. Concepts in the supernatural domain are closely related to concepts in religious spirituality and metaphysics.
• A branch of the 13th-century Franciscans favoring poverty against the wealth of the Church.

Quote

Successive planetary revelations of divine truth invariably embrace the highest existing concepts of spiritual values as a part of the new and enhanced co-ordination of planetary knowledge. (0:12.12)