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  • noun The actions of a medium (person claiming to contact the dead)

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Examples

  • This "mediumism" resists the idea that design can be practiced in a medium-independent or cross-media way.

    Comments at Boxes and Arrows Tayfun CAKIR 2010

  • At the most there exist some indications -- e.g. in Morselli's masterly work (2) -- of the existence of some concordances between the phenomenology of mediumism and hysterical, hysteroid, or at least "sensitive" temperaments.

    Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals Henny Kindermann

  • In cases where the subject is not prepared by evolutional process for the exercise of the psychic faculties, it will be found that the same or similar indications will tend to the simulation of such faculties, as by mediumism, conjuring, etc., while they may even result in chicanery and fraud.

    Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance 1864-1929 Sepharial 1896

  • Because this young girl wished to deceive, we are to conclude that mediumism is "tomfoolery," as you are pleased to express it?

    Redemption and two other plays Leo Tolstoy 1869

  • It proves that your mediumism is -- tomfoolery; that's what it proves!

    Redemption and two other plays Leo Tolstoy 1869

  • Because this young girl wished to deceive, we are to conclude that mediumism is "tomfoolery," as you are pleased to express it?

    Fruits of Culture Leo Tolstoy 1869

  • It proves that your mediumism is -- tomfoolery; that's what it proves!

    Fruits of Culture Leo Tolstoy 1869

  • I do believe in the existence of many psychic diseases, and, amongst their number, in mediumism, for which we have got a queer sounding name from time immemorial.

    From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan 1861

  • And"I know you told me that my main psi-talent is mediumism and not sensitivity, but-well, I've been feeling something around the murder sites.

    Burning Water Lackey, Mercedes 1989

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