Meaning

• A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song.

• Any spiritual function, office, or affair.

  "He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals. — Lowell."

Meaning

• Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.

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

• 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"

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

• Controlled and inspired by the Holy Spirit; pure; holy.

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

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