different between churchy vs spiritual

English

Etymology

From church +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t???t?i/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t?i

Adjective

churchy (comparative churchier, superlative churchiest)

1. (colloquial, mildly derogatory) Piously Christian.
   • 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 90:

     I was staying with my mother's sister, a retired character actress with a churchy streak.

2. Resembling a church.

3. Reminiscent of a church service.

Translations

Noun

churchy (plural churchies)

1. (mildly pejorative) one who is piously Christian

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• (all obsolete) spirituall, spirytual, spirytuall, spyritual, spyrituall, spyrytual, spyrytuall

Etymology

From Middle English spiritual, spirituel, from Old French spirituel, from Late Latin spiritualis, from Latin spiritus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sp???t???l/, /?sp???tj??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sp???t?u?l/, /?sp????t??ul?/

Adjective

spiritual (comparative more spiritual, superlative most spiritual)

1. Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul.

2. Of or pertaining to God or a place of worship; sacred.
3. Of or pertaining to spirits; supernatural.
4. Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal.

   a spiritual substance or being

   • It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.

5. Of or relating to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.
6. (Christianity) Controlled and inspired by the Holy Spirit; pure; holy.

   • If a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one.

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

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

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

spiritual (plural spirituals)

1. A Christian religious song, especially one in an African-American style, or a similar non-religious song.
2. Any spiritual function, office, or affair.

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

Synonyms

• folk song

Translations

References

• spiritual at OneLook Dictionary Search
• spiritual in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• spiritual in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French spirituel, Late Latin sp?ritu?lis, from Latin spiritus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spiritu?al/

Adjective

spiritual m or n (feminine singular spiritual?, masculine plural spirituali, feminine and neuter plural spirituale)

1. spiritual

Declension

Synonyms

• sufletesc

Related terms

• spiritualism
• spiritualitate