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spiritualty|ˈspɪrɪtjuːəltɪ|
Forms: 4–6 spiritualte(e, 5 -allte, speritwalte, spyryt-, 6 spyritualte; 5 spyryt-, spirituelte(e; 4–7 spiritualtie, 5– spiritualty (6 -tye).
[ad. OF. espirit-, esperituaulté, spiritualté, etc.: see spiritual a. and cf. spirituality.]
†1. The quality or state of being spiritual; spiritual character; = spirituality 3. Obs.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. v. 148 Þus þei speken of spiritualte þat eyther despiseth other, Til þei be bothe beggers and by my spiritualte libben. a1420Aunters of Arth. xx, These ar the gracius giftus of the Holi Gost, That enspires iche sprete... Off this spirituallte speke we no more. 142126 Pol. Poems xviii. 8 In brennyng contemplacion, Þe hiȝest lyf of spiritualte. a1500Chester Pl. ix. 166 In tokening of thy dignitie and that office of Spiritualty, receave..deuoutly myne offring.
†b. = holiness n. 2. Obs.—1
1613–8Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. Wks. V. 168 The King of France whom he had excommunicated.., shortly after so wrought, as his Spiritualty was surprized at Anagne.
2.
†a. = spirituality 2. Obs.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 276 So þat alle clerkis lyue clenly on spiritualte, as crist & his apostlis deden. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 335 Kyng William..rulede boþe temperalte and spiritualte [L. secularia et ecclesiastica] at his owne wille. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) iii. 10 He es þare lorde bathe of temperaltee and of spiritualtee. 1700[see temporalty 1]. 1709Strype Ann. Ref. I. xxv. 245 Keeper of the spiritualty of the city and diocese of Bristol.
b. pl. = spirituality 2 b. Now Hist.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1830) 369 Siþ þai han now þe more part of þe temporal lordeschips, and wiþ þat þe spiritualtees and þe greete mouable tresouris of þe rewme. 1531–2Act 23 Hen. VIII, c. 20 §2 Bysshopes..shall..entyerly have and enjoye all the spiritualties and temporalties..in..beneficiall maner. 1570Act 13 Eliz. c. 12 §1 The Bysshop or Gardian of the Spyritualties of some one Diocesse where he hath..Ecclesiastical Lyving. 1607Cowell Interpr. s.v. Gardeyn, The guardeyn of the spiritualties, may be either Guardeyn in lawe,..or guardian by delegation. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 125 Of Common Right, the Dean and Chapter are Guardians of the Spiritualties, during the Vacancy of a Bishoprick. 1763Burn Eccles. Law (1767) I. 202 Spiritualties of bishopricks in the time of vacation. 1835Tomlins Law Dict. s.v. Guardian. 1912 Eng. Hist. Rev. Oct. 768 A complete list of the..temporalties and spiritualties belonging to a parish church.
3. The body of spiritual or ecclesiastical persons; the spiritual estate of the realm; the clergy; = spirituality 1.
c1400Destr. Troy 3100 Ho tentit not in Tempull to no tall prayers,..Ne speche of no spiritualtie, with speciall ne other. c1450Lovelich Grail xlviii. 218 Axeth hem..what maner of men that they welen be, Owther wedded men, owther speritwalte. 1482Caxton Polychronicon viii. xi. 405 As for the temporalytees beynge in the handes of the spirituelte. 1529More Dyaloge iii. Wks. 225/1 So dare I boldly say that the spiritualtie of Englande..is in learning and honest liuing well able to matche..the spiritualtie of anye nacion christen. 1579Fenton Guicciard. iii. (1599) 143 The diuision being no lesse amongst the spiritualtie then the layetie. 1641Milton Ch. Discip. ii. 86 The boistrous and contradictional hand of a temporall, earthly and corporeal Spiritualty. 1699Burnet 39 Art. xxxvii. 384 The Synods..were for the greatest part mixed Assemblies in which the Temporalty and the Spiritualty sate together. 1849W. Fitzgerald tr. Whitaker's Disput. 248 He says all, not merely the learned, or the bishops, or the spiritualty. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iii. 248 The spiritualty defended themselves by prescription and usage. 1878Stubbs Const. Hist. III. xix. 290 We may regard the spiritualty of England, the clergy or clerical estate, as a body completely organised.
†b. A body or set of ecclesiastics or clergy. Obs.
1513Life Hen. V (1911) 184 And all the saide spiritualtie, singinge the offices accustomed in like case, conueyed the saide corps [etc.]. 1545Joye Exp. Dan. v. I v, Then the kynge cried commanding his spiritualtye, his wyse men, enchaunters,..to be brought unto him. 1624Bedell Lett. iii. 68 We learne that no earthly power, no Magistrate is a spirituall man, vnlesse hee bee one of the Popes spiritualtie. 1653Milton Hirelings Pref., A spiritualtie of men devoted to their temporal gain.
†4. pl. Ecclesiastical ground or precincts. Obs.
1470–85Malory Arthur xvii. xxiii. 724 Bors lete bery hym by his syster and by Galahad in the spyrytueltees. |