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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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SPIRITUALITY, n.
The quality or
state of being spiritual; incorporeality; heavenly-
mindedness.
A pleasure made for the soul, suitable to its spirituality. South. If this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth nearest to spirituality. Sir W. Raleigh. Much of our spirituality and comfort in public worship depends on the state of mind in which we come. Bickersteth. That which belongs to the
church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct
from temporalities.
During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof. Blackstone. An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of
the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality.
[Obs.]
Five entire subsidies were granted to the king by the spirituality. Fuller. | ||||||||