Spiritual vs Sacral - What's the difference?
spiritual | sacral |
Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.
* Sir Thomas Browne
Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred.
Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural.
Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal.
* Bible, 1. Corinthians xv. 44
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
Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical.
A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song.
Any spiritual function, office, or affair.
As nouns the difference between spiritual and sacral
is that spiritual is (christianity|historical) a member of a branch of the franciscan order who advocated simple dress and renounced the owning of property while sacral is any of the sacral bones that make up the sacrum.As an adjective sacral is
(anatomy) of the sacrum.spiritual
English
Alternative forms
* spirituall, spirytual, spirytuall, spyritual, spyrituall, spyrytual, spyrytuallAdjective
(en adjective)- Respect towards ancestors is an essential part of Thai spiritual practice.
- 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.
- a spiritual substance or being
- It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
- If a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual , restore such an one.
- the spiritual''' functions of the clergy; lords '''spiritual''' and temporal; a '''spiritual corporation
Derived terms
* antispiritual * antispiritualism * antispirituality * spiritual desertion * spiritualism * spiritualist * spirituality * spirituallyNoun
(en noun)- He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals , and to the emperor in temporals. — Lowell.