-
concern
with
things
of
the
spirit
-
(
theology)
any
doctrine
that
asserts
the
separate
existence
of
God
-
The
quality
or
state
of
being
spiritual.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The
belief
that
nothing
is
real
except
soul,
or
spirit;
the
belief
that
the
souls
of
the
dead
communicate
with
the
living,
especially
through
a
sensitive
person
called
a
medium;
the
practice
of
such
belief.
-
A
being
spiritual:
the
philosophical
doctrine
that
nothing
is
real
out
soul
or
spirit:
the
doctrine
that
spirit
has
a
real
existence
apart
from
matter:
the
belief
that
certain
peculiar
phenomena (
as
rapping,
table-
turning,
etc.)
are
directly
due
to
the
influence
of
departed
spirits,
invoked
by
a "
medium" (
in
this
sense
better
called
SPIRITISM).
-
The
belief
that
departed
spirits
communicate
with
men.
-
Philos.
The
doctrine
of
spiritual
existences.
-
Spiritualist.
-
The
state
of
being
Spiritual;
the
doctrine
of
the
existence
of
spirit
independently
of
matter;
belief
in
communication
with
the
unseen
world
of
the
departed
through
the
impressibility
of
certain
media
to
so-
called
spiritual
influence;
the
doctrine
that
all
which
exists
is
spirit
or
soul.
-
Spiritualistic.
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