Index of English words, starting with "sp"

(1) - Spiritous (a.) Ardent; active.
(2) - Spiritous (a.) Like spirit; refined; defecated; pure.

(1) - Spiritual (n.) A spiritual function, office, or affair. See Spirituality, 2.
(2) - Spiritual (a.) Not lay or temporal; relating to sacred things; ecclesiastical; as, the spiritual functions of the clergy; lords spiritual and temporal; a spiritual corporation.
(3) - Spiritual (a.) Of or pertaining to the soul or its affections as influenced by the Spirit; controlled and inspired by the divine Spirit; proceeding from the Holy Spirit; pure; holy; divine; heavenly-minded; -- opposed to carnal.
(4) - Spiritual (a.) Of or pertaining to the moral feelings or states of the soul, as distinguished from the external actions; reaching and affecting the spirits.
(5) - Spiritual (a.) Of or pertaining to the intellectual and higher endowments of the mind; mental; intellectual.
(6) - Spiritual (a.) Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being.

(1) - Spiritualism (n.) 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.
(2) - Spiritualism (n.) 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.
(3) - Spiritualism (n.) The quality or state of being spiritual.

(1) - Spiritualist (a.) Spiritualistic.
(2) - Spiritualist (n.) One who believes in direct intercourse with departed spirits, through the agency of persons commonly called mediums, by means of physical phenomena; one who attempts to maintain such intercourse; a spiritist.
(3) - Spiritualist (n.) One who maintains the doctrine of spiritualism.
(4) - Spiritualist (n.) One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.

(1) - Spiritualistic (a.) Relating to, or connected with, spiritualism.