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21381 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPIRITUALIZATION.1 (Noah Webster)
SPIRITUALIZATION, n. The act of spiritualizing. In chemistry, the operation of extracting spirit from natural bodies.
21382 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPIRITUALIZE.1 (Noah Webster)
SPIRITUALIZE, v.i.
21383 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPIRITUALIZE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To refine the intellect; to purify from the feculences of the world; as, to spiritualize the soul.
21384 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPIRITUALIZE.4 (Noah Webster)
3. To convert to a spiritual meaning.
21385 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPIRITUALLY.1 (Noah Webster)
SPIRITUALLY, adv. Without corporeal grossness or sensuality; in a manner conformed to the spirit of true religion; with purity of spirit or heart.
21386 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPIRITUALLY.2 (Noah Webster)
Spiritually minded, under the influence of the Holy Spirit or of holy principles; having the affections refined and elevated above sensual objects, and placed on God and his law. Romans 8:6 .
21387 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPIRITUALLY.3 (Noah Webster)
Spiritually discerned, known, not by carnal reason, but by the peculiar illumination of the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 2:14 .
21388 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPIRITUOUS.1 (Noah Webster)
SPIRITUOUS, a.
21389 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPIRITUOUS.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Containing spirit; consisting of refined spirit; ardent; as spirituous liquors. [This might well be written spiritous.]
21390 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPIRITUOUS.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Having the quality of spirit; fine; pure; active; as the spirituous part of a plant.
21391 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPIRITUOUSNESS.1 (Noah Webster)
SPIRITUOUSNESS, n.
21392 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPIRITUOUSNESS.2 (Noah Webster)
1. The quality of being spirituous; ardor; heat; stimulating quality; as the spirituousness of liquors.
21393 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SPOIL.8 (Noah Webster)
Spiritual pride spoils many graces.
21394 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUBORDINATE.6 (Noah Webster)
SUBORDINATE, v.t. To place in order or rank below something else; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another; to subordinate temporal to spiritual things.
21395 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUPREMACY.2 (Noah Webster)
The usurped power of the pope being destroyed, the crown was restored to its supremacy over spiritual men and causes.
21396 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. SUPREMACY.3 (Noah Webster)
Oath of supremacy, in Great Britain, an oath which acknowledges the supremacy of the king in spiritual affairs, and renounces or abjures the pretended supremacy of the pope.
21397 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TEMPORAL.2 (Noah Webster)
… to spiritual. Let not temporal affairs or employments divert the mind from spiritual concerns, which are far more important.
21398 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TEMPORALITIES.1 (Noah Webster)
TEMPORALITIES, TEMPORALS, n. Secular possessions; revenues of an ecclesiastic proceeding from lands, tenements, or lay-fees, tithes and the like. It is opposed to spiritualities.
21399 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. THOUGHTFULNESS.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Serious attention to spiritual concerns.
21400 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. TINCTURE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In medicine, a spiritus solution of such of the proximate principles of vegetables and animals as are soluble in pure alcohol or proof-spirit; wine or spirits containing medicinal substances in solution.