adjective

1. of the spirit or the soul as distinguished from the body or material matters
2. of, from, or concerned with the intellect; intellectual
3. of or consisting of spirit; not corporeal
4. characterized by the ascendancy of the spirit; showing much refinement of thought and feeling
5. of religion or the church; sacred, devotional, or ecclesiastical; not lay or temporal
6. spiritualistic or supernatural

Etymology: ME spirituel < OFr < LL(Ec) spiritualis < L, of breathing or air

noun

1. ☆ any of a type of American folk hymn; specif., any of such songs originating among S U.S. blacks in the 18th and 19th cent. combining African and European musical elements
2. religious or church matters