a. Obs. Also 7 -all. [a. OF. (e)spirital, or ad. L. spīritālis: see SPIRIT sb.]
1. Pertaining to sacred concerns; = SPIRITUAL a. 2. Also absol.
1390. Gower, Conf., I. 32. Wher sche cometh overal, Noght only of the temporal Bot of the spirital also. Ibid., 259. That the Papacie Thei wolde honoure and magnefie In al that evere is spirital.
2. Of the nature of spirit; of or pertaining to the spirit in contrast to the body or matter.
1598. R. Haydocke, trans. Lomazzo, II. 193. Spirital and incorporal thinges.
1642. H. More, Song of Soul, II. ii. II. xi. This is a substance truly spiritall, That reason by her glistring lamp hath shown. Ibid., II. ii. III. xvii. That truths spiritall we may with ease Find out.
a. 1676. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., III. vi. (1677), 277. When the Matter is fitly prepared, there is an illapse of this Vital, Formative, Spirital Principle into it.
1707. J. Stevens, trans. Quevedo’s Com. Wks. (1709), 48. There being no likelihood that human Weakness could prevail against a spirital Power.
