Word Meanings - SPIRITUALITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities. During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof. Blackstone. 3. An ecclesiastical body; the

Additional info about word: SPIRITUALITY

That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities. During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof. Blackstone. 3. An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality. Five entire subsidies were granted to the king by the spirituality. Fuller. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being spiritual; incorporeality; heavenly- mindedness. A pleasure made for the soul, suitable to its spirituality. South. If this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth nearest to spirituality. Sir W. Raleigh. Much of our spirituality and comfort in public worship depends on the state of mind in which we come. Bickersteth.

Related words: (words related to SPIRITUALITY)

• CHURCHLINESS
  Regard for the church.
• DISTINCTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things. The soul's . . . distinctness from the body. Cudworth. 2. Nice discrimination; hence, clearness; precision; as, he stated
• GUARDIAN
  One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,
• CHURCHLIKE
  Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
• DURAMEN
  The heartwood of an exogenous tree.
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• GUARDIANESS
  A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
• DURIO
  A fruit tree of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian.
• GUARDIANLESS
  Without a guardian. Marston.
• DUROUS
  Hard.
• ECCLESIASTIC
  A person in holy orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion; a clergyman; a priest. From a humble ecclesiastic, he was subsequently preferred to the highest dignities of the church. Prescott.
• CHURCH
  AS. circe, cyrice; akin to D. kerk, Icel. kirkja, Sw. kyrka, Dan. kirke, G. kirche, OHG. chirihha; all fr. Gr. ç'd4ra hero, Zend. çura 1. A building set apart for Christian worship. 2. A Jewish or heathen temple. Acts xix. 37. 3. A formally
• CHURCHYARD
  The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery. Like graves in the holy churchyard. Shak. Syn. -- Burial place; burying ground; graveyard; necropolis; cemetery; God's acre.
• CHURCH-BENCH
  A seat in the porch of a church. Shak.
• DURANTE
  During; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito, during pleasure.
• DISTINCTURE
  Distinctness.
• DISTINCTIVENESS
  State of being distinctive.
• ECCLESIASTICALLY
  In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules.
• REVERDURE
  To cover again with verdure. Ld. Berners.
• CONTRADISTINCT
  Distinguished by opposite qualities. J. Goodwin.
• UNDISTINCTLY
  Indistinctly.
• PODURA
  Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a springtail. Podura scale , one of the minute scales with which the body of a podura is covered. They are used as test objects for the microscope. (more info) podo`s,
• CORRELIGIONIST
  A co-religion
• OBDURATION
  A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart.
• ORDURE
  1. Dung; excrement; fæces. Shak. 2. Defect; imperfection; fault. Holland.
• BORDURE
  A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.