Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; also, one whose employment is spiritual.
- noun One who accepts philosophical spiritualism. See
spiritualism , 2. - noun One who believes that intercourse may be and is held with departed spirits, especially through the agency of a medium; one who claims to hold such intercourse. Also called
spiritist .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.
- noun One who maintains the doctrine of spiritualism.
- noun 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. - adjective Spiritualistic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun spiritualism Somebody who practises
spiritualism ; somebody who believes in the possibility of communication with thedead ; somebody who attempts to communicate with the dead. - adjective Pertaining to
spiritualism ;spiritualistic .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead
- adjective of or relating to or connected with spiritualism
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Examples
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A spiritualist is summoned to cleanse the place of its terrors, but with her arrival the complexities of motive and desire only multiply.
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Germany and England, corresponded regularly with Madame Blavatsky and Olcot, wrote in spiritualist journals, and was always giving ad hoc séances.
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Dominican "spiritualist" - from the description she's a Santería practitioner.
latimes.com - News 2010
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Already, in 1867, Ravaisson in his celebrated "Report" wrote these prophetic lines: "Many signs permit us to foresee in the near future a philosophical epoch of which the general character will be the predominance of what may be called spiritualist realism or positivism, having as generating principle the consciousness which the mind has in itself of an existence recognised as being the source and support of every other existence, being none other than its action."
A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson Edouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy 1912
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*Gnosticism, a kind of spiritualist and occult philosophy which encourages liberalism
Archive 2008-05-18 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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The novel depicts the rise of Stan Carlisle from a carnival mentalist to a successful "spiritualist," preying on the rich and gullible matrons of society, to his eventual fall and total disintegration.
Archive 2008-06-01 Ed Gorman 2008
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The novel depicts the rise of Stan Carlisle from a carnival mentalist to a successful "spiritualist," preying on the rich and gullible matrons of society, to his eventual fall and total disintegration.
Forgotten Books - Nightmare Alley Ed Gorman 2008
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*Gnosticism, a kind of spiritualist and occult philosophy which encourages liberalism
The Last Acceptable Prejudice de Brantigny........................ 2008
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We aren't sure, but we suspect that the girlfriend, from who he stole some gold bracelets and knows that he would be running home to momma, sent a "spiritualist" to invoke some "kharma" upon him.
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He wasn't the ghost-raisin 'kind of spiritualist, and them that went to see a show, come away dissap'inted, for all he did was to talk and take up a collection.
Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent Ellis Parker Butler 1903
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