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SpiritualSpiritual Spir"it*u*al, n.
A spiritual function, office, or affair. See Spirituality,
2.
He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to
the emperor in temporals. --Lowell. Spiritual fatherFather Fa"ther, n. [OE. fader, AS. f[ae]der; akin to OS.
fadar, D. vader, OHG. fatar, G. vater, Icel. Fa?ir Sw. & Dan.
fader, OIr. athir, L. pater, Gr. ?????, Skr. pitr, perh. fr.
Skr. p[=a] protect. ???,???. Cf. Papa, Paternal,
Patriot, Potential, Pablum.]
1. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a
generator; a male parent.
A wise son maketh a glad father. --Prov. x. 1.
2. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor;
especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or
family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors.
David slept with his fathers. --1 Kings ii.
10.
Abraham, who is the father of us all. --Rom. iv. 16.
3. One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance,
affetionate care, counsel, or protection.
I was a father to the poor. --Job xxix.
16.
He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all
his house. --Gen. xiv. 8.
4. A respectful mode of address to an old man.
And Joash the king og Israel came down unto him
[Elisha], . . . and said, O my father, my father!
--2 Kings
xiii. 14.
5. A senator of ancient Rome.
6. A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a
confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest;
also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a
legislative assembly, etc.
Bless you, good father friar ! --Shak.
7. One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first
centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as
the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.
8. One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a
producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any
art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or
teacher.
The father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
--Gen. iv. 21.
Might be the father, Harry, to that thought. --Shak.
The father of good news. --Shak.
9. The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first
person in the Trinity.
Our Father, which art in heaven. --Matt. vi. 9.
Now had the almighty Father from above . . . Bent
down his eye. --Milton.
Adoptive father, one who adopts the child of another,
treating it as his own.
Apostolic father, Conscript fathers, etc. See under
Apostolic, Conscript, etc.
Father in God, a title given to bishops.
Father of lies, the Devil.
Father of the bar, the oldest practitioner at the bar.
Fathers of the city, the aldermen.
Father of the Faithful.
(a) Abraham. --Rom. iv. --Gal. iii. 6-9.
(b) Mohammed, or one of the sultans, his successors.
Father of the house, the member of a legislative body who
has had the longest continuous service.
Most Reverend Father in God, a title given to archbishops
and metropolitans, as to the archbishops of Canterbury and
York.
Natural father, the father of an illegitimate child.
Putative father, one who is presumed to be the father of an
illegitimate child; the supposed father.
Spiritual father.
(a) A religious teacher or guide, esp. one instrumental in
leading a soul to God.
(b) (R. C. Ch.) A priest who hears confession in the
sacrament of penance.
The Holy Father (R. C. Ch.), the pope. Spiritual incestIncest In"cest, n. [F. inceste, L. incestum unchastity,
incest, fr. incestus unchaste; pref. in- not + castus chaste.
See Chaste.]
The crime of cohabitation or sexual commerce between persons
related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by
law. --Shak.
Spiritual incest. (Eccl. Law)
(a) The crime of cohabitation committed between persons who
have a spiritual alliance by means of baptism or
confirmation.
(b) The act of a vicar, or other beneficiary, who holds two
benefices, the one depending on the collation of the
other. Spiritual peersPeer Peer, n. [OE. per, OF. per, F. pair, fr. L. par equal.
Cf. Apparel, Pair, Par, n., Umpire.]
1. One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character,
etc.; an equal; a match; a mate.
In song he never had his peer. --Dryden.
Shall they consort only with their peers? --I.
Taylor.
2. A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate.
He all his peers in beauty did surpass. --Spenser.
3. A nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the
British nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount,
baron; as, a peer of the realm.
A noble peer of mickle trust and power. --Milton.
House of Peers, The Peers, the British House of Lords.
See Parliament.
Spiritual peers, the bishops and archibishops, or lords
spiritual, who sit in the House of Lords. Spiritualism
Spiritualism Spir"it*u*al*ism, n.
1. The quality or state of being spiritual.
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.
3. A belief that departed spirits hold intercourse with
mortals by means of physical phenomena, as by rappng, 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.
What is called spiritualism should, I think, be
called a mental species of materialism. --R. H.
Hutton.
Spiritualist
Spiritualist Spir"it*u*al*ist, n.
1. One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one
whose employment is of a spiritual character; an
ecclesiastic.
2. One who maintains the doctrine of spiritualism.
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.
Spiritualist
Spiritualist Spir"it*u*al*ist, a.
Spiritualistic. --Taylor.
Spiritualistic
Spiritualistic Spir`it*u*al*is"tic, a.
Relating to, or connected with, spiritualism.
Spiritualization
Spiritualization Spir`it*u*al*i*za"tion, n.
The act of spiritualizing, or the state of being
spiritualized.
SpiritualizeSpiritualize Spir"it*u*al*ize, 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.
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.
2. To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual
sense; -- opposed to literalize.
3. (Old Chem.) To extract spirit from; also, to convert into,
or impregnate with, spirit. SpiritualizedSpiritualize Spir"it*u*al*ize, 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.
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.
2. To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual
sense; -- opposed to literalize.
3. (Old Chem.) To extract spirit from; also, to convert into,
or impregnate with, spirit. Spiritualizer
Spiritualizer Spir"it*u*al*i`zer, n.
One who spiritualizes.
SpiritualizingSpiritualize Spir"it*u*al*ize, 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.
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.
2. To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual
sense; -- opposed to literalize.
3. (Old Chem.) To extract spirit from; also, to convert into,
or impregnate with, spirit. Spiritually
Spiritually Spir"it*u*al*ly, adv.
In a spiritual manner; with purity of spirit; like a spirit.
Spiritual-mindedSpiritual-minded Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed, a.
Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy
desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n. Spiritual-mindednessSpiritual-minded Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed, a.
Having the mind set on spiritual things, or filled with holy
desires and affections. -- Spir"it*u*al-mind`ed*ness, n. Spiritualness
Spiritualness Spir"it*u*al*ness, n.
The quality or state of being spiritual or spiritual-minded;
spirituality.
SpiritualtySpiritualty Spir"it*u*al*ty, n. [See Spirituality.] (Eccl.)
An ecclesiastical body; a spirituality. --Shak. Spirituosity
Spirituosity Spir`it*u*os"i*ty, n.
The quality or state of being spirituous; spirituousness.
[R.]
SpirituousSpirituous Spir"it*u*ous, a. [Cf. (for sense 2) F. spiritueux.
Cf. Spiritous.]
1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and
having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial;
spiritual; pure.
2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic (esp.
distilled) spirit; consisting of refined spirit;
alcoholic; ardent; as, spirituous liquors.
3. Lively; gay; vivid; airy. [Obs.] --Sir H. Wotton.
The mind of man is of that spirituous, stirring
nature, that it is perpetually at work. --South. Spirituousness
Spirituousness Spir"it*u*ous*ness, n.
The quality or state of being spirituous. [R.] --Boyle.
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