a.[ L. ritualis, fr. ritus a rite: cf. F. rituel. ] Of or pertaining to rites or ritual; as, ritual service or sacrifices; the ritual law. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. rituel. ] 1. A prescribed form of performing divine service in a particular church or communion; as, the Jewish ritual. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, the code of ceremonies observed by an organization; as, the ritual of the freemasons. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A book containing the rites to be observed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. ritualisme. ] 1. A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices of those in the Protestant Episcopal Church who sympathize with this party in the Church of England. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ CF. F. ritualiste. ] One skilled un, or attached to, a ritual; one who advocates or practices ritualism. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or in accordance with, a ritual; adhering to ritualism. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By rites, or by a particular rite. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. spiritualis: cf. F. spirituel. See Spirit. ] 1. Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. 1 Cor. xv. 44. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of or pertaining to the moral feelings or states of the soul, as distinguished from the external actions; reaching and affecting the spirits. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Of or pertaining to the soul or its affections as influenced by the Spirit; controlled and inspired by the divine Spirit; proceeding from the Holy Spirit; pure; holy; divine; heavenly-minded; -- opposed to carnal. [ 1913 Webster ]

That I may impart unto you some spiritual gift. Rom. i. ll. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings. Eph. i. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

If a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one. Gal. vi. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical; as, the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spiritual coadjuctor. (Eccl.) See the Note under Jesuit. --
Spiritual court (Eccl. Law), an ecclesiastical court, or a court having jurisdiction in ecclesiastical affairs; a court held by a bishop or other ecclesiastic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A spiritual function, office, or affair. See Spirituality, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quality or state of being spiritual. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) The doctrine, in opposition to the materialists, that all which exists is spirit, or soul -- that what is called the external world is either a succession of notions impressed on the mind by the Deity, as maintained by Berkeley, or else the mere educt of the mind itself, as taught by Fichte. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A belief that departed spirits hold intercourse with mortals by means of physical phenomena, as by rapping, or during abnormal mental states, as in trances, or the like, commonly manifested through a person of special susceptibility, called a medium; spiritism; the doctrines and practices of spiritualists. [ 1913 Webster ]

What is called spiritualism should, I think, be called a mental species of materialism. R. H. Hutton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who maintains the doctrine of spiritualism. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who believes in direct intercourse with departed spirits, through the agency of persons commonly called mediums, by means of physical phenomena; one who attempts to maintain such intercourse; a spiritist. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Spiritualistic. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to, or connected with, spiritualism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Spiritualities [ L. spiritualitas: cf. F. spiritualité. ] 1. The quality or state of being spiritual; incorporeality; heavenly-mindedness. [ 1913 Webster ]

A pleasure made for the soul, suitable to its spirituality. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

If this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth nearest to spirituality. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

Much of our spirituality and comfort in public worship depends on the state of mind in which we come. Bickersteth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities. [ 1913 Webster ]

During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Five entire subsidies were granted to the king by the spirituality. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of spiritualizing, or the state of being spiritualized. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Spiritualized p. pr. & vb. n. Spiritualizing ] [ Cf. F. spiritualiser. ] 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. [ 1913 Webster ]

This seen in the clear air, and the whole spiritualized by endless recollections, fills the eye and the heart more forcibly than I can find words to say. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; -- opposed to literalize. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Old Chem.) To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who spiritualizes. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a spiritual manner; with purity of spirit; like a spirit. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

n. The quality or state of being spiritual or spiritual-minded; spirituality. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Spirituality. ] (Eccl.) An ecclesiastical body; a spirituality. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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