Lord Spiritual
Americannoun
plural
Lords SpiritualEtymology
Origin of Lord Spiritual
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50
Example Sentences
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The lord spiritual and temporal of the Mussulmans of Spain had fallen to such straits that he had to beg for bread and a candle.
From Project Gutenberg
The tithing-men are gone, and the deacons do not sit severe and conspicuous in the meeting-house, and the minister has not the air of a lord spiritual of the village; and the genius of modern times and the spirit of the age are entertained with full consciousness of what they are.
From Project Gutenberg
He came as the lord spiritual, and for the first time since 1870 as the lord temporal.
From Time Magazine Archive
An archbishop, duke or duchess had to pay for a commitment fee and the first week’s “dyett,” £21 10s.; a lord, spiritual or temporal, £10 5s. 10d.; a knight, £5; an esquire, £3 6s. 8d.; and even a poor man in the wards, “that hath a part at the box, to pay for his fee, having no dyett, 7s. 4d.”
From Project Gutenberg
The lord spiritual had this foul privilege no less than the lord temporal.
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