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Of or pertaining to rites or ritual; as, ritual service or sacrifices; the ritual law.		 a.
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A prescribed form of performing divine service in a particular church or communion; as, the Jewish ritual.		 n.
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Hence, the code of ceremonies observed by an organization; as, the ritual of the freemasons.		 n.
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A book containing the rites to be observed.		 n.
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A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual.		 n.
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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.		 n.
Ritualist Hear the Pronunciation!
One skilled un, or attached to, a ritual; one who advocates or practices ritualism.		 n.
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Pertaining to, or in accordance with, a ritual; adhering to ritualism.		 a.
Ritually By rites, or by a particular rite. adv.
Spiritual Hear the Pronunciation!
Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being.		 a.
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Of or pertaining to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.		 a.
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Of or pertaining to the moral feelings or states of the soul, as distinguished from the external actions; reaching and affecting the spirits.		 a.
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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.		 a.
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Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical; as, the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation.		 a.
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A spiritual function, office, or affair. See Spirituality, 2.		 n.
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The quality or state of being spiritual.		 n.
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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.		 n.
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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.		 n.
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One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.		 n.
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One who maintains the doctrine of spiritualism.		 n.
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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.		 n.
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Spiritualistic.		 a.
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Relating to, or connected with, spiritualism.		 a.
Spiritualities of Spirituality pl.
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The quality or state of being spiritual; incorporeality; heavenly-mindedness.		 n.
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That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities.		 n.
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An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality.		 n.
Spiritualization Hear the Pronunciation!
The act of spiritualizing, or the state of being spiritualized.		 n.
Spiritualized of Spiritualize imp. & p. p.
Spiritualizing of Spiritualize p. pr. & vb. n.
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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.		 v. t.
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To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; -- opposed to literalize.		 v. t.
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To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.		 v. t.
Spiritualizer One who spiritualizes. n.
Spiritually In a spiritual manner; with purity of spirit; like a spirit. adv.