Ritualism :: Ritualism (n.) A system founded upon a ritual or prescribed form of religious worship; adherence to, or observance of, a ritual..
Ritualism :: Ritualism (n.) Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices o
Ritualist :: Ritualist (n.) One skilled un, or attached to, a ritual; one who advocates or practices ritualism..
Ritualistic :: Ritualistic (a.) Pertaining to, or in accordance with, a ritual; adhering to ritualism..
Spiritualism :: Spiritual (n.) A spiritual function, office, or affair. See Spirituality, 2..
Spiritualism :: Spiritualism (n.) The quality or state of being spiritual.
Spiritualism :: 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..
Spiritualist :: 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..
Spiritualist :: Spiritualist (n.) One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.
Spiritualist :: Spiritualist (n.) One who maintains the doctrine of spiritualism.
Spiritualist :: 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..
Spirituality :: Spirituality (n.) The quality or state of being spiritual; incorporeality; heavenly-mindedness.
Spirituality :: Spirituality (n.) That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities..
Spiritualization :: Spirituality (n.) An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality..
Spiritualize :: Spiritualizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spiritualiz.
Spiritualize :: Spiritualize (v. t.) To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul..
Spiritualize :: Spiritualize (v. t.) To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; -- opposed to literalize.
Spiritualized :: Spiritualization (n.) The act of spiritualizing, or the state of being spiritualized..
Spiritualizer :: Spiritualize (v. t.) To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit..