Adjective

(en adjective)

Devoted; loyal; conscientious.

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Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.

Respect towards ancestors is an essential part of Thai spiritual practice.

* Sir Thomas Browne

God's law is spiritual ; it is a transcript of the divine nature, and extends its authority to the acts of the soul of man.

Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred.

Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural.

Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal.

a spiritual substance or being

* Bible, 1. Corinthians xv. 44

It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.

Of or relating to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.

(Christianity) Controlled and inspired by the Holy Spirit; pure; holy.

* Bible, Gal. vi. 1

If a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual , restore such an one.

Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical.

the spiritual''' functions of the clergy; lords '''spiritual''' and temporal; a '''spiritual corporation