Spiritual means relating to people's thoughts and beliefs, rather than to their bodies and physical surroundings. She lived entirely by spiritual values, in a world of poetry and imagination. temporal + spiritually spir·itu·al·ly Our whole programme is spiritually oriented but not religious. + spirituality spir·itu·al·ity the peaceful spirituality of Japanese culture
Spiritual means relating to people's religious beliefs. The spiritual leader of Ireland's 3.7 million Catholics = religious secular
a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States lacking material body or form or substance; "spiritual beings"; "the vital transcendental soul belonging to the spiritual realm"-Lewis Mumford concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; "a spiritual approach to life"; "spiritual fulfillment"; "spiritual values"; "unearthly love
{s} of the spirit world, incorporeal; of or pertaining to the spirit or soul; of or pertaining to the supernatural; religious, of or pertaining to sacred things; ecclesiastical, of or pertaining to the church
like or being a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance"
The quality of any activity which drives the human being forward towards some form of development -- physical, emotional, intuitional, social -- in advance of his present state
A spiritual is a religious song of the type originally sung by black slaves in America. a religious song of the type sung originally by African-Americans. In North American white and black folk music, an English-language folk hymn. White spirituals derived variously, notably from the "lining out" of psalms, dating from at least the mid-17th century. Where congregations could not read, a leader intoned the psalm one line at a time, alternating with the congregation's singing of each line to a familiar melody; the tune, sung slowly, was ornamented with passing notes, turns, and other graces. A second source was the singing of hymns set to borrowed melodies, often secular folk tunes. Themes included going home to the promised land and gaining ground against sin; typical refrains were "Roll, Jordan" and "Glory Hallelujah." The songs survive in oral tradition in isolated areas and also in the form of shape-note singings. African American spirituals developed in part from white rural folk hymnody but differ greatly in voice quality, vocal effects, rhythm, and type of rhythmic accompaniment. They were sung not only in worship but also as work songs, and the text imagery often reflects concrete tasks. Like the white gospel song, the modern African American gospel song derives from the spiritual
{i} folk song with a religious theme (especially one that originated among black people in the southern United States)
1 relating to the spirit or soul and not to physical nature or matter; intangible 2 of, relating to, or characteristic of sacred things, the Church, religion, etc
concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church; "religious texts"; "a nenber if a religious order"; "lords temporal and spiritual"; "spiritual leaders"; "spiritual songs"
of or pertaining to the very deepest nature of life--that part of life in which a person relates to God